It's not hard to fill a drive with high-res textures, game data, and various media files, and it doesn't matter what OS you use, those things are always big unless they're procedurally generated.
Well, I'm not stupid. Just shocked at the irreverance towards 100mb of space.
I managed to get the highest quality divx of Elephants Dream to run on full speed on my machine. I even stretched it and did it with 6 levels of post-processing, and still at full speed. The size was very slightly larger than my 1280*960 resolution, but the mplayer resize worked fine. I have a pretty high-end workstation here, but if it's not out of my reach, maybe in a couple of years it won't be out of anyones reach. I'm a programmer, not a visual expert, but it was 1920*1080 according to my mplayer output. This isn't some specialised chip; it's an amd4000 and a newer matrox card.
You're exactly right. Movies via the internet is paletable for a great many people now. As soon as someone creates a client that makes it all easy and uses bittorrent we'll have a new iTunes Store. Though, regrettably, I will most certainly have DRM.
Valve software are using the internet in order to sell games, and these are currently far larger than the majority of films. Granted the userbase is more knowledgable, but perhaps if media center PC's were sold with the capability from scratch?
The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).
DRM prevents people from doing this.
The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
DRM also prevents people from doing this.
The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor
DRM, again, prevents this.
The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
Again, another freedom prevented by DRM.
The whole point of the GPL is to prevent people from restricting the freedom of others. DRM does just that. Hence the GPL is changing to prevent DRM from being to distribute Free Software. What is the point of a licence promoting freedom if some users of the software don't have the freedom? You've neglected to mention that when DRM is used, the user typically has none of the 4 freedoms anyway.
The Acid Test: Do the users of the iTunes software have any of those freedoms? No
I have seen about 3 PCs in my lifetime that get sidepanels right: easy to take off, but fit snugly and stay on well in spite of semifrequent access. For my last few boxes, I hav mostly kept my sidepanel off, but laying up against the case. Well, it helps cooling...
Hmmm...not in my experience. I've found that taking the side off the machine wrecks the airflow on some cases, and often times this means higher temperatures, because the warm air isn't being properly expelled.
I bought a new case recently, for a personal box, and I picked an Sexy Antec Number. In went a 939 board and it's fine and nice.
It's plain, and simple. Pretty practical. When you buy a case with a big fat batman image on it, or whole bunch of lights and crap, you should be able to guess what you're getting into.
You've read my post, but you haven't really understood it.
The speech should not be classified along with the act of violence. If the person is clearly intending to be violent, then you use existing laws.
Restricting speech you don't like ("hate speech" as AI calls it) hass nothing to do with violence - violence is illegal through existing laws. It just curtails freedom of speech.
The fact or not that other countries have different problems from us makes no difference: everyone should have the same human rights and situations, such as war, are no excuse to take away freedom of speech.
Oh thank god. Amnesty International involved! Great, now the anti-censorship lobby will have childish name-calling, double standards on freedom of speech, and glossy leaflets on their side. How I have waited for this day.
I'm a supporter of the anti-censorship side of this debate, but having an organisation that believes in censorship of opinions they dislike really means little. I know this is going to stir people up, but consider this quote (from Wikipedia);
However, the right to freedom of expression is not absolute -- neither for the creators of material nor their critics. It carries responsibilities and it may, therefore, be subject to restrictions in the name of safeguarding the rights of others. In particular, any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence cannot be considered legitimate exercise of freedom of expression. Under international standards, such "hate speech" should be prohibited by law.
Now, as much as nationalists, racists and religious extremists are scum, the fact of the matter is that they all have the right to a voice, just like everyone else. One shouldn't ban political opinions you dislike. When people use bigotry as an excuse to commit force or fraud, it is the act itself which is the crime, and deserves punishment, not the motive behind it.
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There's nothing wrong with selling andd paying money for Free Software. Red Hat make a living off of it.
Wouldn't know. I use a real operating system.
And Debian has showed us what, that packages should be old and outdated?
This is not a drawback. Rethink this. It has a stable branch for a reason; if you don't like that aspect, then testing is for you.
It's not hard to fill a drive with high-res textures, game data, and various media files, and it doesn't matter what OS you use, those things are always big unless they're procedurally generated.
Well, I'm not stupid. Just shocked at the irreverance towards 100mb of space.
piddly 100MB left
I can install entire operating systems in half that. Some people really know how to waste space...
I managed to get the highest quality divx of Elephants Dream to run on full speed on my machine. I even stretched it and did it with 6 levels of post-processing, and still at full speed. The size was very slightly larger than my 1280*960 resolution, but the mplayer resize worked fine. I have a pretty high-end workstation here, but if it's not out of my reach, maybe in a couple of years it won't be out of anyones reach. I'm a programmer, not a visual expert, but it was 1920*1080 according to my mplayer output. This isn't some specialised chip; it's an amd4000 and a newer matrox card.
You're exactly right. Movies via the internet is paletable for a great many people now. As soon as someone creates a client that makes it all easy and uses bittorrent we'll have a new iTunes Store. Though, regrettably, I will most certainly have DRM.
Valve software are using the internet in order to sell games, and these are currently far larger than the majority of films. Granted the userbase is more knowledgable, but perhaps if media center PC's were sold with the capability from scratch?
The print.html page will only be served to use if your referrer is tomshardware.co.uk. So go to the page, and then alter the url to be print.html
that is, when the riaa/ mpaa behead these entities, they go underground and become headless
Piracy has been underground too long. It's time fix the law.
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Heh. Sometimes it's easy to spot a lisper.
Perhaps if people bought this kind of stuff, companies would realise there's a market for linux software and make more.
GNU/Linux needs closed software like it needs an NT kernel and a web browser called Internet Explorer.
Please, it's not as if theres any need or reason for rivalry.
Both can co-exist, and it's only childish coments such as these that encourage the rabid fanboyism that this community suffers from.
Agreed; if it's Free Software, I couldn't give a damn about patents.
Can't k3b do this? Last time I used it it was pretty full featured.
Using Nero for Linux is a situation I would rather people didn't have to face.
You're all gonna feel such fools very, very soon.
The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).
DRM prevents people from doing this.
The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
DRM also prevents people from doing this.
The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor
DRM, again, prevents this.
The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
Again, another freedom prevented by DRM.
The whole point of the GPL is to prevent people from restricting the freedom of others. DRM does just that. Hence the GPL is changing to prevent DRM from being to distribute Free Software. What is the point of a licence promoting freedom if some users of the software don't have the freedom? You've neglected to mention that when DRM is used, the user typically has none of the 4 freedoms anyway.
The Acid Test: Do the users of the iTunes software have any of those freedoms?
No
I have seen about 3 PCs in my lifetime that get sidepanels right: easy to take off, but fit snugly and stay on well in spite of semifrequent access. For my last few boxes, I hav mostly kept my sidepanel off, but laying up against the case. Well, it helps cooling...
Hmmm...not in my experience. I've found that taking the side off the machine wrecks the airflow on some cases, and often times this means higher temperatures, because the warm air isn't being properly expelled.
First: Did this article need to be 29 pages long?
I bought a new case recently, for a personal box, and I picked an Sexy Antec Number. In went a 939 board and it's fine and nice.
It's plain, and simple. Pretty practical. When you buy a case with a big fat batman image on it, or whole bunch of lights and crap, you should be able to guess what you're getting into.
Hmmm...agreed.
You've read my post, but you haven't really understood it.
The speech should not be classified along with the act of violence. If the person is clearly intending to be violent, then you use existing laws.
Restricting speech you don't like ("hate speech" as AI calls it) hass nothing to do with violence - violence is illegal through existing laws. It just curtails freedom of speech.
The fact or not that other countries have different problems from us makes no difference: everyone should have the same human rights and situations, such as war, are no excuse to take away freedom of speech.
I didn't make it clear enough; that was a quote from Amnesty themselves; at least according to Wikipedia
Oh thank god. Amnesty International involved! Great, now the anti-censorship lobby will have childish name-calling, double standards on freedom of speech, and glossy leaflets on their side. How I have waited for this day.
I'm a supporter of the anti-censorship side of this debate, but having an organisation that believes in censorship of opinions they dislike really means little. I know this is going to stir people up, but consider this quote (from Wikipedia);
However, the right to freedom of expression is not absolute -- neither for the creators of material nor their critics. It carries responsibilities and it may, therefore, be subject to restrictions in the name of safeguarding the rights of others. In particular, any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence cannot be considered legitimate exercise of freedom of expression. Under international standards, such "hate speech" should be prohibited by law.
Now, as much as nationalists, racists and religious extremists are scum, the fact of the matter is that they all have the right to a voice, just like everyone else. One shouldn't ban political opinions you dislike. When people use bigotry as an excuse to commit force or fraud, it is the act itself which is the crime, and deserves punishment, not the motive behind it.
don't you mean "thinking-free liberals"?
You're a funny guy.
You got caught up in the analogy. This is a common libertarian (emphasis on the small "l" here) statement; the word "guns" was a metaphor for force.
That massive tirade that you just fired off was misjudged, and redundant.
Your car analogy isn't a good one.
A car analogy...not good? MY....GOD.....