The DVD Control Association is probably not so worried about a limited powerful elite on players otherwise so many computer software players would not exist, especially Xing.;)
I'm sure the DVD people also must have heard about CD-Rs (and probably sued over that one too).
The DVD Control Association is probably worried that now the encryption is cracked, the movies can be extracted into other formats such as Mpegs and easily distributed. I remember starting game downloads on my old 28.8 at night and waking up the next day to find it 90% finished for the 50 MB ones. With cable, dsl, etc. now you get the demos in 15 minutes and wake up the next day to have a brand new movie to watch on your hard drive.
If that happens the movie makers, disc makers, and disc players lose lots of money so that is why the lawyers have been loosed. Just like college networks have led to the great proliferation of MP3s, movies will - and as I have heard from some people, already have - appear.
All the shuttles are at the Cape along with parts of the International Space Station and parts to repair and improve the Hubble Space telescope.
If all that gets trashed by the hurricane we (humanity and science) might lose years of work in space program. A significant amount of Congress is hostile to spending money on NASA and the Space Station. We could lose the ISS all in one shot without Space Shuttles (which will take years to rebuild).
Meanwhile, I'll be hiding behind my plywood here in Miami.
Then you might ask from where the extraterrestrial race came from? Another group of ETs? Spontaneous creation on their planet? Given vast interstellar distances, physical limitations on high (near-light) speed travel, and the probablility of choosing this solar system out of so many others to dump garbage, it is much more likely that life just spontaneously began here. The chemicals that make up basic life forms such as bacteria are common; however, the combination of chemicals that create a bacterium are not. So I can understand if it took a billion years for bacteria to just form out of random chemical combinations let alone evolve into something else. Once the chemical infrastructure was established in bacteria, modifications to bacteria created new life and therefore evolution proceeded and that explains why all life shares similiar characteristics that can be traced back millions of years. But that is just what I think.
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The DVD Control Association is probably not so worried about a limited powerful elite on players otherwise so many computer software players would not exist, especially Xing. ;)
I'm sure the DVD people also must have heard about CD-Rs (and probably sued over that one too).
The DVD Control Association is probably worried that now the encryption is cracked, the movies can be extracted into other formats such as Mpegs and easily distributed. I remember starting game downloads on my old 28.8 at night and waking up the next day to find it 90% finished for the 50 MB ones. With cable, dsl, etc. now you get the demos in 15 minutes and wake up the next day to have a brand new movie to watch on your hard drive.
If that happens the movie makers, disc makers, and disc players lose lots of money so that is why the lawyers have been loosed. Just like college networks have led to the great proliferation of MP3s, movies will - and as I have heard from some people, already have - appear.
Any plans for the Domino client?
All the shuttles are at the Cape along with parts of the International Space Station and parts to repair and improve the Hubble Space telescope.
If all that gets trashed by the hurricane we (humanity and science) might lose years of work in space program. A significant amount of Congress is hostile to spending money on NASA and the Space Station. We could lose the ISS all in one shot without Space Shuttles (which will take years to rebuild).
Meanwhile, I'll be hiding behind my plywood here in Miami.
Anjin-san
Then you might ask from where the extraterrestrial race came from? Another group of ETs? Spontaneous creation on their planet? Given vast interstellar distances, physical limitations on high (near-light) speed travel, and the probablility of choosing this solar system out of so many others to dump garbage, it is much more likely that life just spontaneously began here. The chemicals that make up basic life forms such as bacteria are common; however, the combination of chemicals that create a bacterium are not. So I can understand if it took a billion years for bacteria to just form out of random chemical combinations let alone evolve into something else. Once the chemical infrastructure was established in bacteria, modifications to bacteria created new life and therefore evolution proceeded and that explains why all life shares similiar characteristics that can be traced back millions of years.
But that is just what I think.
Anjin-san