Island owned the recordings. They sued SST/Negativland. How is U2 supposed to prevent this? And apparently, when they got involved, they tried to stop it as much as they could (told them not to collect).
Sounds like you want to make a villian out of Negativland too. I can go with that. Like I said, clearly they knew what they were doing was going to be a legal problem. They purposely got in trouble to start a discussion about copyright. And they were thwarted when SST caved and turned it into an issue of who is to be left with a financial liability, which is not a discussion-starter.
Still, I don't see how U2 did something wrong here.
You should get a copy of Negativland's book "The Letter U and the Numeral 2". If you have one already, reread it.
The lawsuit is on page 4.
The plantiff is Island records, the defendants are SST and Negativland (Hosler, et al). Neither the band U2 nor the members are listed on the lawsuit.
Furthermore, the lawsuit is primarily about Negativland's use of the enormous letters "U2" on the cover of the EP. It does mention the lyrics and samples down lower. The songs were actually rereleased later (much later) with a non-infringing cover.
Additionally, if you continue to read the book or other info on the case, you realize the main problem isn't Island or U2. The main problem was that when the lawsuit rolled in SST immediately rolled over, stopped distribution of the EP, paid off Island and then BILLED BACK Negativland for the payoff (while simultaneously depriving them of income!).
If you continued to investigate, you'd find that Negativland was wrapped up on court for years over this. Not against Island, against SST. SST didn't rack up huge bills defending themselves against Island, they settled immediately. They did rack up huge bills fighting Negativland in a contractual dispute.
How about if you read page 32, where Chris Blackwell of Island Records says in a letter to Negativland "I have been getting a huge amount of hastle (sp) from the members of U2, not to press for payment."
Hosler could probably explain it better than I (he's perhaps even on here), but the main villain here is SST, not U2. Island probably comes in 2nd place.
Note that a later part of the book talks more about "audio collage" and sampling, etc. That's where the stuff on "No Copyright" is. And there are some good arguments here, in fact, so good that (IMHO) the recent Creative Commons stuff is a spiritual descendant of this work.
I like Negativland, I have all of their SST stuff and some of their Seeland stuff. But, I do know they are very subversive and not stupid. When the Tower records standup picture of the EP bin on page 3 of the book says "buy it before they get sued", I think it's probably that Negativland understood they would get C&D'd over this record and likely sued by Island too. What they didn't understand was that SST would roll over on them and leave them with the bill (illegally it turns out).
"making trips to the US, holding conferences and denouncing domestic politics."
The whole world (including foreign politicians) doesn't see any problem with ripping the US (Bush specifically) a new one over Kyoto and they don't confine such complaints to when they are outside our borders.
For that matter, there was plenty of international condemnation (mostly by non-politicans) over the execution of Tookie Williams last week (somehow missing the vastly higher rate of executions in Texas, BTW). I do believe I also recall a few Australian politicans telling Singapore how to conduct their domestic business a week and a half ago over a similar issue.
I don't mean to say much here other than things in this vein happen all the time, in all different directions. Which is a great reason not to get over excited when something like this happens (not referring to you, but the other poster).
I have to say that the situation you describe sounds similar to this current one between the US and Canada, although the US/Canada situation is somewhat less severe. So perhaps you would reach the same conclusion, that David Wilkins was expressing a preference for one political party by criticizing Paul Martin over his comments. I don't happen to agree, but it's not a black and white thing, I could see how someone would say it was the case. I would note though that the opposition parties in Canada seem to think it's very much a case of grandstanding.
As to my comments about the 70s, there is some evidence of CIA (US foreign intelligence agency) involvement in overturning the Whitlam government during the Australian constitutional crisis in the mid-70s. The evidence isn't strong, but the case, if true, is far more damning. (Perhaps this is common knowledge in Australia, I don't claim to be up on Australian politics.)
I can't say that I find the idea of politicians running on the idea of hating a foreign country/political figure very savory myself. Without invoking Godwin's law, I can just say it doesn't lead in a direction I'd like to see the world heading.
Decide for yourself if what he did was wrong (preferably by getting even more info than this), but don't jump to the mistaken conclusion that the US was telling the Canadians which party to vote for.
Sounds like the situation was different in Australia though. This isn't the stuff from back to the 70s, is it? (Not that the passage of time excuses such a thing)
His statements are not correct. If he spoke of the current situation in the US, that'd be one thing. But to portray these things as "The American Way" (like the American Dream) is to put forth an incorrect stereotype. This is the Bush way, and sadly, he's our president. But that doesn't mean it represents America, or even the overall feelings of Americans.
Now, if this had been that way for 10 years, and the enforcement of such didn't seem to be hurting our leaders in the court of public opinion, then I would agree, this would seem to be "The American Way". But that's not the case.
I can't believe you fell for that crap. The comments made were nothing like you make them out to be. Paul Martin is just playing off resentment/hatred toward America by playing up his level of independence. Wilkins is right either way, bashing another country is no way to win an election. What if we chose our Presidents by who hated Canada more? You'd like that?
I think the softwood stuff is BS. It's worse than the steel tariffs Bush put on knowing full well they were illegal. And then when Bush was forced to remove them, he justified illegal tariffs by saying "they gave our steel industry time to recover". But I don't see how we owe you the money. The money was collected wrongly from Americans. I don't see how it is thus owed to Canadians.
Did I light into you over illegal rebates/bribes? Did I respond to your comments that we have no freedom of speech by mentioning that your government can dictate which stories the media cannot cover? That the government was confiscating newspapers at the border because of the Homolka stories?
Your house isn't clean. Thus, it would be both polite and prudent for you to be more civil and not make silly statements like government prying and restrictions on freedom are "The American Way".
My TV is a LCD rear projection unit with a resolution of 1368x768. It doesn't convert 720p to 1080i. Only CRT-based HDTVs do that. Discrete-pixel displays (LCD, LCos, DLP, plasma, FED/SED) can't even really display interlaced material without converting it to progressive (except the new wobblerating DLPs).
Alias was okay in the early days. It just can't hold a candle to CSI:TOS though, it's been that way for at least two years. It's not just the resolution, because Law and Order is 1080i too and doesn't look as good as CSI:TOS.
Many many people watch HDTV on TVs that aren't even capable of the full resolution of 1080i/p (like 99.99% of plasmas). They're not really in a position to judge the spatial resolution of source material.
The USA PATRIOT Act also makes it illegal to talk about what information has been garnered from this monitoring or even that it has been done.
It'd be nice though if you would refrain from making derogatory stereotypical remarks about Americans though. When an Amercican does it, perhaps it's contructive but when someone else does it, is just comes across as pejorative.
CBS uses 1080i, ABC and ESPN uses 720p. And there's no comparison. CBS (CSI) looks far far better).
The only TVs that don't support 720p are cheapo CRT TVs that don't want to convert the signal. 720p requires a vertical frequency of 60Hz and a horizontal frequency of 43.2KHz. Whipping the electron beam right to left between lines 43,000 times per second is a tall order.
1080i only requires a vertical frequency of 30Hz and a horizontal frequency of 16.2KHz. That's a lot easier to do on a tube.
I do have to go back to the original poster's question: where are you getting a 1080p signal anyway? I have nothing against 1080p, but there is no standard for broadcast 1080p. That means you can't get it over the air (OTA), off cable or from DirectTV. There's no HD optical disc format, and D-VHS doesn't support it. So that really makes it difficult to find any 1080p content.
Virtually every (non-CRT) HDTV will support 1080p input by the end of the year, so source material will migrate that way over time I suppose.
You're right about that, but then again, if the machine is already operating when you get to it, it already has that key punched in, and it has stored it somewhere in it (or else it wouldn't be operating at the moment).
To be honest, I had thought of the same thing you did, and I tried to fix my text to cover that case. But I didn't get the edits right. Whoops. It's always most difficult to proofread your own text. I see it as saying what I meant to say instead of what it actually says.
First of all, there is massive forced bundling right now. That raises attach rate (games sold per unit). Second of all, there are large numbers of people who preordered machines from places like Electronics Boutique and still haven't received their console, although they received the games on November 22nd.
These two factors raise the attach rate significantly. It simply won't stick as the consoles actually become individually. Especially with the awful launch titles.
I bought my 360 standalone and only bought two games. And I wish I hadn't bought one of the two (Kameo)! I think that two games will become more normal when you can get machines without bundles.
Additionally, I think you overstate the case with Xbox 1. Many people might say that MS was willing to lose money on Xbox 1 if necessary. But your statement makes it out as if MS sold it with the intent of losing money on it. I don't think that's true. I think they intended to make the platform a financial success and they just failed to do so.
360 sales are poor so far due to supply constraints (except in Japan where people don't seem to want it). We'll see how things go after Xmas, when units are actually available and the true quality of the launch titles is better known by those thinking of buying one.
I have to say, I like the 360 a lot, and I like MS' attitude on this whole thing (esp. in the interview this article references). But I'm not yet convinced that MS is going to make a financial go of it this time around.
Once you have access to the machine, you can always break into it. Yeah, an encrypted file system will slow people down a lot.
But if the machine can boot itself and access that disk, then the machine itself contains all the information needed to decrypt the data on the disk. And thus someone can break into it by definition. It may be difficult, but it's certainly possible.
This is why Kerberos key granters are locked away.
In a serial hybrid you need an electric motor that can produce all the power (horsepower/motion) you need to move your vehicle. Then you need a generator large enough to make that much electricity. The gas engine which is the source of all the energy doesn't change in side appreciably.
Making these things larger increases your material costs. But more importantly, it makes your vehicle heavier. This is a problem, even for a hybrid. It takes more energy to accelerate a heavier vehicle. Yeah, you do have regenerative braking, but given that you'll be recovering more energy under braking, you need a larger battery pack too. That adds even more (significant) material cost and weight. Finally, the more energy you expend, the more you lose to friction and heat.
So, in a vehicle like a car, the lighter parallel hybrid system seems to be the way to go. In a vehicle like a train, you actually need the weight to give the locomotive enough traction to accelerate the train.
Of course there are vehicles between cars and trains, like buses and semi-trailers. It'll be interesting to see which vehicles work better with which systems.
That is, the chipsets seem okay (currently using an nForce 4 SLi).
It's their drivers that are bad. Installing their IDE drivers breaks most DVD writers. Installing their active armor firewall not only corrupted my HTTP downloads, but also installs TWO copies of apached on your machine because their configuration tools for it are HTML-based.
But hey, right now, I am using 4 DIMMs in a dual-channel config at 200MHz (full speed, a bit tough to do) and AMD Cool n' Quiet. And it works very well and very reliably.
And I'm supposed to want to trade this for a ULi chipset which doesn't even have GigE? I don't agree.
It would be nice if nVidia would spruce up their audio support a bit. It'd be nice to get the auto-AC3 encoding of SoundStorm back.
And files. I do agree not everyone needs a 60GB iPod. Perhaps that's why Apple makes 30GB iPods, and 2GB iPods and 4GB iPods.
Plus, iPod do hold uncompressed music or losslessly compressed music. Or podcasts.
And yes, I had a 1400 CD collection even before the iPod came out. I have an 800-CD CD rack, it has 5 rows, 3 feet long each. It of course doesn't hold my whole collection.
I'm sure a lot of other people already pirate music, but I don't see that iPod has much to do with it. I am 36, I'm out of touch with the kids nowadays. But every one of the college students I have met (and had the opportunity to view the record collection of) has a huge collection of pirated music on CD-Rs and hard drives. I don't have any reason to believe that they're pirating more music because they can put it on an iPod instead of burning it onto an mp3 CD and putting it in a cheapo CD player.
Is the iTMS selling iPods? Likely. But I don't believe it's solely a system of selling iPods.
Also, if something is protected by copyright, it is copyrighted, not copywritten. Copywritten sounds cool, but it's not really the right conjugation.
Well, in this case, it was very similar to the Xbox file system, so there was no work to do.
So, how was the Xbox file system decoded?
Well, in this case, someone pirated a copy of the MS tool GDFIMAGE. They could use that to make test file systems and reverse engineer those knowing exactly what was in them. But really, I don't think that they did either, they likely just disassembled GDFIMAGE. There have been replacement (presumably legal) tools for GDFIMAGE for some time now, as the original is copyrighted by MS and so sites won't post it.
It's all fruit of the contaminated tree, and a bit sad. It would have been nicer if it could have been done clean. But really, I think that's just a lack of resources from the community. They do things in their spare time and so do it in the most efficient way they can think of, instead of they way a lawyer would advise.
And I'm not holding something against the Xbox hacker/mod people, they're a very smart group of people and have done so much great work with the Xbox. Compare the Xbox mod and hacker scene to the PS2 one and you'll see the difference in results and even in organization.
That's "PanelLink". It's the same thing I believe. Although HDCP/PanelLink only encrypts from the video card to the monitor. Also part of MS' DRM strategy is making sure the data is encrypted from the mobo to the video card, the system to the mobo/video card and the app to the system.
MS system is very comprehensive and very annoying. Oh, and it won't stop internet distribution of movies. But it will prevent all existing computers from being able to play BluRay or HD-DVD movies (or WMV-HD). Any computer that has a video cable right now cannot be made to play these movies (in full res). So laptops could, if they had the right drive in them. Other machines? No.
Just bought a 30" monitor with a $600 video card to run it? Throw them out. You can't play movies on it. The monitor doesn't do HDCP and the video card doesn't either.
This drives me up a wall, personally I think that both HD-DVD and BluRay will be hurt by them trying to put in so much DRM. They're already throwing money away by waiting to release them while they "prefect" the DRM. I went from buying 5 DVDs a month (and before that 5 LaserDiscs) to buying about 1 every other month. Because I see stuff in HD and I don't want to pay for a DVD anymore. The "you'll have it forever" thing goes from a positive to a negative when you know before you even buy it that the picture quality is low enough that you think about how you'll be having an inferior picture version forever.
I mean, really, am I going to watch CSI in 1920x1080 and then "buy it forever" in 720x480? No.
These companies have no respect for their customers. And they wonder why their sales are suffering. They're very poor businessmen.
I know the 360 CPU has limitations. Lack of OOO execution makes it useless for use in a family of machines or any machine that would have to run code that was compiled for another chip. That means they aren't good laptop or desktop processors, heck they're bad for Windows in general.
But if you wanted to set up a large compute cluster, and compile code specifically for it (which you would anyway to take advantage of the distributed processing), then these would be great. You'd get great performance at a low cost and with reasonably low power usage.
There were 4 available at any given time, but they had a couple rounds of them. In the first set, "Weekend at Bernie's" was available. It was the best movie of any of the rounds, and IMHO, was actually worth having.
Drop Dead Fred was in the 2nd round. I got that too, but I wanted a different one, they gave it to me by mistake. None of the 4 in the 2nd round was worth having, IMHO. I refused to accept any of the DVDs in the 3rd round they were so bad.
If you ever went in to get your pizza, you'd have noticed they kept the DVDs locked up! They were free to you, but they kept them more secure than other items in there like the 2-liter bottles of pop that cost $2 or something. I never understood that.
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Island owned the recordings. They sued SST/Negativland. How is U2 supposed to prevent this? And apparently, when they got involved, they tried to stop it as much as they could (told them not to collect).
Sounds like you want to make a villian out of Negativland too. I can go with that. Like I said, clearly they knew what they were doing was going to be a legal problem. They purposely got in trouble to start a discussion about copyright. And they were thwarted when SST caved and turned it into an issue of who is to be left with a financial liability, which is not a discussion-starter.
Still, I don't see how U2 did something wrong here.
So the faces you see get money, eh?
The guy who makes sure the traffic lights on the way to work don't go green both ways and gets you killed gets nothing?
I don't mean to sound like Mr. Pink here, but this is a great example of how baffling the rules for who gets a gratuity are.
Perhaps you could ask yourself, if I'm only giving it to people I see and not the most deserving regardless, who am I really doing it for?
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You should get a copy of Negativland's book "The Letter U and the Numeral 2". If you have one already, reread it.
The lawsuit is on page 4.
The plantiff is Island records, the defendants are SST and Negativland (Hosler, et al). Neither the band U2 nor the members are listed on the lawsuit.
Furthermore, the lawsuit is primarily about Negativland's use of the enormous letters "U2" on the cover of the EP. It does mention the lyrics and samples down lower. The songs were actually rereleased later (much later) with a non-infringing cover.
Additionally, if you continue to read the book or other info on the case, you realize the main problem isn't Island or U2. The main problem was that when the lawsuit rolled in SST immediately rolled over, stopped distribution of the EP, paid off Island and then BILLED BACK Negativland for the payoff (while simultaneously depriving them of income!).
If you continued to investigate, you'd find that Negativland was wrapped up on court for years over this. Not against Island, against SST. SST didn't rack up huge bills defending themselves against Island, they settled immediately. They did rack up huge bills fighting Negativland in a contractual dispute.
How about if you read page 32, where Chris Blackwell of Island Records says in a letter to Negativland "I have been getting a huge amount of hastle (sp) from the members of U2, not to press for payment."
Hosler could probably explain it better than I (he's perhaps even on here), but the main villain here is SST, not U2. Island probably comes in 2nd place.
Note that a later part of the book talks more about "audio collage" and sampling, etc. That's where the stuff on "No Copyright" is. And there are some good arguments here, in fact, so good that (IMHO) the recent Creative Commons stuff is a spiritual descendant of this work.
I like Negativland, I have all of their SST stuff and some of their Seeland stuff. But, I do know they are very subversive and not stupid. When the Tower records standup picture of the EP bin on page 3 of the book says "buy it before they get sued", I think it's probably that Negativland understood they would get C&D'd over this record and likely sued by Island too. What they didn't understand was that SST would roll over on them and leave them with the bill (illegally it turns out).
"making trips to the US, holding conferences and denouncing domestic politics."
The whole world (including foreign politicians) doesn't see any problem with ripping the US (Bush specifically) a new one over Kyoto and they don't confine such complaints to when they are outside our borders.
For that matter, there was plenty of international condemnation (mostly by non-politicans) over the execution of Tookie Williams last week (somehow missing the vastly higher rate of executions in Texas, BTW). I do believe I also recall a few Australian politicans telling Singapore how to conduct their domestic business a week and a half ago over a similar issue.
I don't mean to say much here other than things in this vein happen all the time, in all different directions. Which is a great reason not to get over excited when something like this happens (not referring to you, but the other poster).
I have to say that the situation you describe sounds similar to this current one between the US and Canada, although the US/Canada situation is somewhat less severe. So perhaps you would reach the same conclusion, that David Wilkins was expressing a preference for one political party by criticizing Paul Martin over his comments. I don't happen to agree, but it's not a black and white thing, I could see how someone would say it was the case. I would note though that the opposition parties in Canada seem to think it's very much a case of grandstanding.
As to my comments about the 70s, there is some evidence of CIA (US foreign intelligence agency) involvement in overturning the Whitlam government during the Australian constitutional crisis in the mid-70s. The evidence isn't strong, but the case, if true, is far more damning. (Perhaps this is common knowledge in Australia, I don't claim to be up on Australian politics.)
I can't say that I find the idea of politicians running on the idea of hating a foreign country/political figure very savory myself. Without invoking Godwin's law, I can just say it doesn't lead in a direction I'd like to see the world heading.
Not on 4 times regurgitated information.
The offender David Wilkins in no way expressed an endorsement of a political party.
Get to the source, get real info. Don't form opinions (especially negative ones) from sketchy information and your own built-in biases.
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Decide for yourself if what he did was wrong (preferably by getting even more info than this), but don't jump to the mistaken conclusion that the US was telling the Canadians which party to vote for.
Sounds like the situation was different in Australia though. This isn't the stuff from back to the 70s, is it? (Not that the passage of time excuses such a thing)
His statements are not correct. If he spoke of the current situation in the US, that'd be one thing. But to portray these things as "The American Way" (like the American Dream) is to put forth an incorrect stereotype. This is the Bush way, and sadly, he's our president. But that doesn't mean it represents America, or even the overall feelings of Americans.
Now, if this had been that way for 10 years, and the enforcement of such didn't seem to be hurting our leaders in the court of public opinion, then I would agree, this would seem to be "The American Way". But that's not the case.
I can't believe you fell for that crap. The comments made were nothing like you make them out to be. Paul Martin is just playing off resentment/hatred toward America by playing up his level of independence. Wilkins is right either way, bashing another country is no way to win an election. What if we chose our Presidents by who hated Canada more? You'd like that?
I think the softwood stuff is BS. It's worse than the steel tariffs Bush put on knowing full well they were illegal. And then when Bush was forced to remove them, he justified illegal tariffs by saying "they gave our steel industry time to recover". But I don't see how we owe you the money. The money was collected wrongly from Americans. I don't see how it is thus owed to Canadians.
Did I light into you over illegal rebates/bribes? Did I respond to your comments that we have no freedom of speech by mentioning that your government can dictate which stories the media cannot cover? That the government was confiscating newspapers at the border because of the Homolka stories?
Your house isn't clean. Thus, it would be both polite and prudent for you to be more civil and not make silly statements like government prying and restrictions on freedom are "The American Way".
Bad assumption.
My TV is a LCD rear projection unit with a resolution of 1368x768. It doesn't convert 720p to 1080i. Only CRT-based HDTVs do that. Discrete-pixel displays (LCD, LCos, DLP, plasma, FED/SED) can't even really display interlaced material without converting it to progressive (except the new wobblerating DLPs).
Alias was okay in the early days. It just can't hold a candle to CSI:TOS though, it's been that way for at least two years. It's not just the resolution, because Law and Order is 1080i too and doesn't look as good as CSI:TOS.
Many many people watch HDTV on TVs that aren't even capable of the full resolution of 1080i/p (like 99.99% of plasmas). They're not really in a position to judge the spatial resolution of source material.
The USA PATRIOT Act also makes it illegal to talk about what information has been garnered from this monitoring or even that it has been done.
It'd be nice though if you would refrain from making derogatory stereotypical remarks about Americans though. When an Amercican does it, perhaps it's contructive but when someone else does it, is just comes across as pejorative.
CBS uses 1080i, ABC and ESPN uses 720p. And there's no comparison. CBS (CSI) looks far far better).
The only TVs that don't support 720p are cheapo CRT TVs that don't want to convert the signal. 720p requires a vertical frequency of 60Hz and a horizontal frequency of 43.2KHz. Whipping the electron beam right to left between lines 43,000 times per second is a tall order.
1080i only requires a vertical frequency of 30Hz and a horizontal frequency of 16.2KHz. That's a lot easier to do on a tube.
I do have to go back to the original poster's question: where are you getting a 1080p signal anyway? I have nothing against 1080p, but there is no standard for broadcast 1080p. That means you can't get it over the air (OTA), off cable or from DirectTV. There's no HD optical disc format, and D-VHS doesn't support it. So that really makes it difficult to find any 1080p content.
Virtually every (non-CRT) HDTV will support 1080p input by the end of the year, so source material will migrate that way over time I suppose.
Selecting "update" and then "restart" 4 times is a lot of trouble?
Especially because if they could have done 1 step each week over 4 weeks and still have been upgraded by now.
I think the comments about the piracy checks preventing them are more on-track.
You're right about that, but then again, if the machine is already operating when you get to it, it already has that key punched in, and it has stored it somewhere in it (or else it wouldn't be operating at the moment).
To be honest, I had thought of the same thing you did, and I tried to fix my text to cover that case. But I didn't get the edits right. Whoops. It's always most difficult to proofread your own text. I see it as saying what I meant to say instead of what it actually says.
First of all, there is massive forced bundling right now. That raises attach rate (games sold per unit). Second of all, there are large numbers of people who preordered machines from places like Electronics Boutique and still haven't received their console, although they received the games on November 22nd.
These two factors raise the attach rate significantly. It simply won't stick as the consoles actually become individually. Especially with the awful launch titles.
I bought my 360 standalone and only bought two games. And I wish I hadn't bought one of the two (Kameo)! I think that two games will become more normal when you can get machines without bundles.
Additionally, I think you overstate the case with Xbox 1. Many people might say that MS was willing to lose money on Xbox 1 if necessary. But your statement makes it out as if MS sold it with the intent of losing money on it. I don't think that's true. I think they intended to make the platform a financial success and they just failed to do so.
360 sales are poor so far due to supply constraints (except in Japan where people don't seem to want it). We'll see how things go after Xmas, when units are actually available and the true quality of the launch titles is better known by those thinking of buying one.
I have to say, I like the 360 a lot, and I like MS' attitude on this whole thing (esp. in the interview this article references). But I'm not yet convinced that MS is going to make a financial go of it this time around.
Once you have access to the machine, you can always break into it. Yeah, an encrypted file system will slow people down a lot.
But if the machine can boot itself and access that disk, then the machine itself contains all the information needed to decrypt the data on the disk. And thus someone can break into it by definition. It may be difficult, but it's certainly possible.
This is why Kerberos key granters are locked away.
In a serial hybrid you need an electric motor that can produce all the power (horsepower/motion) you need to move your vehicle. Then you need a generator large enough to make that much electricity. The gas engine which is the source of all the energy doesn't change in side appreciably.
Making these things larger increases your material costs. But more importantly, it makes your vehicle heavier. This is a problem, even for a hybrid. It takes more energy to accelerate a heavier vehicle. Yeah, you do have regenerative braking, but given that you'll be recovering more energy under braking, you need a larger battery pack too. That adds even more (significant) material cost and weight. Finally, the more energy you expend, the more you lose to friction and heat.
So, in a vehicle like a car, the lighter parallel hybrid system seems to be the way to go. In a vehicle like a train, you actually need the weight to give the locomotive enough traction to accelerate the train.
Of course there are vehicles between cars and trains, like buses and semi-trailers. It'll be interesting to see which vehicles work better with which systems.
That is, the chipsets seem okay (currently using an nForce 4 SLi).
It's their drivers that are bad. Installing their IDE drivers breaks most DVD writers. Installing their active armor firewall not only corrupted my HTTP downloads, but also installs TWO copies of apached on your machine because their configuration tools for it are HTML-based.
But hey, right now, I am using 4 DIMMs in a dual-channel config at 200MHz (full speed, a bit tough to do) and AMD Cool n' Quiet. And it works very well and very reliably.
And I'm supposed to want to trade this for a ULi chipset which doesn't even have GigE? I don't agree.
It would be nice if nVidia would spruce up their audio support a bit. It'd be nice to get the auto-AC3 encoding of SoundStorm back.
And blame the consumers. Wal-Mart only sells what people buy.
And files. I do agree not everyone needs a 60GB iPod. Perhaps that's why Apple makes 30GB iPods, and 2GB iPods and 4GB iPods.
Plus, iPod do hold uncompressed music or losslessly compressed music. Or podcasts.
And yes, I had a 1400 CD collection even before the iPod came out. I have an 800-CD CD rack, it has 5 rows, 3 feet long each. It of course doesn't hold my whole collection.
I'm sure a lot of other people already pirate music, but I don't see that iPod has much to do with it. I am 36, I'm out of touch with the kids nowadays. But every one of the college students I have met (and had the opportunity to view the record collection of) has a huge collection of pirated music on CD-Rs and hard drives. I don't have any reason to believe that they're pirating more music because they can put it on an iPod instead of burning it onto an mp3 CD and putting it in a cheapo CD player.
Is the iTMS selling iPods? Likely. But I don't believe it's solely a system of selling iPods.
Also, if something is protected by copyright, it is copyrighted, not copywritten. Copywritten sounds cool, but it's not really the right conjugation.
You apparently never saw the Joe Schmo show.
There was only one non-actor on the whole show. The joke was on him.
You're right, this show is different in that the joke is on the audience. But it's far from the first show to riff on Reality TV.
Didn't that show (or at least idea) with Shatner going to Iowa to pretend to film a movie precede this (Invasion Iowa) too?
Well, in this case, it was very similar to the Xbox file system, so there was no work to do.
So, how was the Xbox file system decoded?
Well, in this case, someone pirated a copy of the MS tool GDFIMAGE. They could use that to make test file systems and reverse engineer those knowing exactly what was in them. But really, I don't think that they did either, they likely just disassembled GDFIMAGE. There have been replacement (presumably legal) tools for GDFIMAGE for some time now, as the original is copyrighted by MS and so sites won't post it.
It's all fruit of the contaminated tree, and a bit sad. It would have been nicer if it could have been done clean. But really, I think that's just a lack of resources from the community. They do things in their spare time and so do it in the most efficient way they can think of, instead of they way a lawyer would advise.
And I'm not holding something against the Xbox hacker/mod people, they're a very smart group of people and have done so much great work with the Xbox. Compare the Xbox mod and hacker scene to the PS2 one and you'll see the difference in results and even in organization.
That's "PanelLink". It's the same thing I believe. Although HDCP/PanelLink only encrypts from the video card to the monitor. Also part of MS' DRM strategy is making sure the data is encrypted from the mobo to the video card, the system to the mobo/video card and the app to the system.
MS system is very comprehensive and very annoying. Oh, and it won't stop internet distribution of movies. But it will prevent all existing computers from being able to play BluRay or HD-DVD movies (or WMV-HD). Any computer that has a video cable right now cannot be made to play these movies (in full res). So laptops could, if they had the right drive in them. Other machines? No.
Just bought a 30" monitor with a $600 video card to run it? Throw them out. You can't play movies on it. The monitor doesn't do HDCP and the video card doesn't either.
This drives me up a wall, personally I think that both HD-DVD and BluRay will be hurt by them trying to put in so much DRM. They're already throwing money away by waiting to release them while they "prefect" the DRM. I went from buying 5 DVDs a month (and before that 5 LaserDiscs) to buying about 1 every other month. Because I see stuff in HD and I don't want to pay for a DVD anymore. The "you'll have it forever" thing goes from a positive to a negative when you know before you even buy it that the picture quality is low enough that you think about how you'll be having an inferior picture version forever.
I mean, really, am I going to watch CSI in 1920x1080 and then "buy it forever" in 720x480? No.
These companies have no respect for their customers. And they wonder why their sales are suffering. They're very poor businessmen.
Sending the video out over analog (component) or unencrypted digital is forbidden.
The DVD CCA won't even let you send out uprezzed DVDs over analog or unencrypted digital (if the Macrovision flag is set).
It's completely ridiculous.
DVI w/HDCP is electrically identical to HDMI I guess, so that's probably permissible.
I know the 360 CPU has limitations. Lack of OOO execution makes it useless for use in a family of machines or any machine that would have to run code that was compiled for another chip. That means they aren't good laptop or desktop processors, heck they're bad for Windows in general.
But if you wanted to set up a large compute cluster, and compile code specifically for it (which you would anyway to take advantage of the distributed processing), then these would be great. You'd get great performance at a low cost and with reasonably low power usage.
There were 4 available at any given time, but they had a couple rounds of them. In the first set, "Weekend at Bernie's" was available. It was the best movie of any of the rounds, and IMHO, was actually worth having.
Drop Dead Fred was in the 2nd round. I got that too, but I wanted a different one, they gave it to me by mistake. None of the 4 in the 2nd round was worth having, IMHO. I refused to accept any of the DVDs in the 3rd round they were so bad.
If you ever went in to get your pizza, you'd have noticed they kept the DVDs locked up! They were free to you, but they kept them more secure than other items in there like the 2-liter bottles of pop that cost $2 or something. I never understood that.