They are much less exciting than REAL wars. When will Apple and Nokia build up militias and shoot each other to death while I watch it on my major news source in night vision?
Isn't the only thing separating a Mac from the PC is the OS? People argue that the PC is better mostly from a hardware point of view. Keyboards, mice, easier to mod, extensibility, etc... I don't see why Windows or OSX would have any significant differences in these regards since they have the same hardware and peripherals, and the same access to the game's files for modding purposes.
I would highly recommend purchasing Slysoft's AnyDVD HD. Yes, it will set you back $100, plus about $50/yr (they've gone to subscription since they continuously crack the BR keys - but they are very good at it). Once you have this in place, you can play the content you've purchased on any output from your machine. You can even back up the raw, unencrypted content so that you can play it with any software player which has the base (VC-1/x264) codec installed.
Trust me, if you have a Windows based media PC, you want AnyDVD (HD). And you want to support Slysoft with your money so that they keep on top of the cracks which prevent you from enjoying the items you've purchased.
(note: I am not affiliated in any way with Slysoft, except as a 4+ year satisfied customer with a 300+ title library on HD which I ripped from my own collection)
What about Linux? Right now my media pc is running Win7 and it's doing a perfect job at it, but I own five DVDs. A collection I want to increase now that I own a proper TV. I know that Windows is quite DRM friendly and Linux is not, and XBMC, my media server software of choice, runs on both OSes.
The question that I want to ask, is why so many Americans etc want to get involved in what is our own choice here in Australia. As a nation we generally like and expect some censorship. What is that to you? What is it to Anonymous? It's our nation and we can do as we like with it.
We elected this government and the previous one which planned the censorship originally. Unlike the USA we actually do have a pretty democratic system here. Let us run our country as we like!
Because when a "respected" nation does something that a "non respected" nation does, then it becomes "respectable". China has draconian monitoring systems to watch its citizens, it's distasteful. The UK has draconian monitoring systems, it's a template for the US. This is why we should be concerned about Australia, because Australia can be used in the "if they can do it so can we" excuse, while China can't.
If I am ahead of schedule, rock on If I am directly on schedule, rock on If I am behind schedule, creatively blame something that is out of my control to begin with, rock on
With f2p MMOs, I - not the developer - get to choose IF, WHEN, and HOW MUCH I'm willing to spend on the game. If the game is good, I'll gladly pay to get better gear, charms, etc. If the game sucks, I quit and I'm out of $0.
Compare that to Aion where you PAY $50 for the retail game, then PAY $15 a month just to SEE IF YOU'LL LIKE IT. That, my friend, IS a rip-off.
Obviously, the "race to the top" becomes a big spender's minigame, and you'll end up maxing out a few credit cards to get there, but that's only a minority of the player base.
F2P games were born in Asia, where most players are poor and play mostly from lan houses. So it doesn't make any sense to pay monthly fees.
Uhm, there is absolutely nothing wrong here. It's amazing how many people feel that their principles have been compromised when really, there is only Google, or Bing, and the rest is just fluff. Besides, it's not as if Ubuntu doesn't empower you to change anything you want.
So really, stop the hyperbole and scaremongering already.
That is what a DRM'ed DVD or MP3 is. You borrow that content.
I own the physical copy of the DVD. I can resell it, loan it out, set it on fire if I want. The idea of DRM is irrelevant to the subject. DRM or no, you don't own digital data.
Even if you buy a book, you don't own the novel, you own the book. The only restrictions borrowed books have over bought books is you have to give them back.
In the essay I pointed to, Doctorow mentions that nobody ever went broke from piracy, but many artists have gone hungry or found other work because of obscurity. Obscurity is the artists' true enemy.
You missed my point though. You buy a DVD, you keep it. You don't own the content, but you still keep it. DRM however, makes that ownership temporary. You may keep the medium, but the content may not last. That's the same principle behind a library. You don't keep the content, you just consume it and give it back.
Most AT&T users could tell you that AT&T really needs to get their shit together. No need for expensive research.
Personally, I am with AT&T now because: 1 - I had to have a GSM phone (CDMA FTL!) 2 - T-Mobile's covereage sucks where I live in Atlanta (or at least it did 18 months ago)
I am pissed and dont have much of a choice - its MaBell of Tmob. Not much is out there that would drive me to the shackles of CDMA hell with BigRed.
If CDMA is faster than light, then why did you go with AT&T?
After having watched the video linked to from OP, I have to ask: why did that video take a music label to finance it, film it, produce it, distribute it?
It was a frigging marching band, for Grid's sake! They could have gone to a sizable local high school, recruited the cooperation of the band director, and done this entirely by themselves -- including distributing it on YouTube -- for only a few bucks. And they wouldn't have to worry about distribution restrictions, because they wouldn't be owned by a label! And the band would be happy to cooperate if given credit, because they would be famous, if only for a little while.
The video is decent, but there is nothing there that requires any fancy label support or financing. I have seen more impressive shows by high school bands, and I mean that quite literally and sincerely.
Sorry, but the actual product does not back their arguments. I call bullshit.
Others are doing it successfully. If OK Go can't... well... I won't lose sleep over it.
1) Cameras, 2) Camera crews, 3) studio engineers, 4) distribution of video, 5) promotion and marketing and licensing of the video (which involves slashdot's favorite group of people: lawyers), 6) production of the song, 6a) studio engineers, 6b) hired musicians to complement some tracks, 6c) cd/vinyl pressings, 6d) distribution of album.
Do you actually need a label to do all this? No, of course not. But you need money. You need capital to invest. Where will you get it? previous comments have pointed out that banks aren't going to loan musicians money to make an album, but labels will.
The notion that if you give data away you can't make money on it is a fallacy that has been disproven time and again. Libraries have been around for centuries; you can walk in, check out an armful of books for free, and read them, and go back for more. Even a small city's library has more books than one could read, and they're constantly updated with more.
The music industry was sure that radio would kill record sales. Instead, it sold more records. The movie industry was sure that TV would kill the movie industry, but instead it got more people interested in movies. They thought tthe VCR would kill the industry, look what happened. The music industry thought cassettes would kill it, but like the VCR and movies it sold more product.
The established industry is going about digital data backwards. They should use MP3s like thay use radio -- a free lure to get people to shell out cash for physical items.
If giving it away meant that you couldn't sell it, Cory Doctorow would not have been on the New York Times best seller list. Besides libraries, you can get digital copies of his books for free on his website. The forward to Little Brother explains this far better than this slashdot comment; I urge everyone to read that book, or at least the forward.
So, what you're saying is that you support DRM? Because that's what a library is. It's a place to temporarily get your hands on content, consume it, and then give it back. You have no rights to copy/distribute the work you BORROWED. That is what a DRM'ed DVD or MP3 is. You borrow that content. People really need to stop using libraries as some sort of "proof" that free access to content does not deprive money from the creator of the content.
Don't go putting your MMORPG experience on your resume. You will not get hired for one simple fact, people have figured out by now that WoW can cause addiction amongst its players. They are not going to hire you if they think all you're going to do at work is play your MMO.
Secondly, while MMO's can help someone gain leadership and organizational skills (I'd imagine EVE could even teach you some basic economical/business skills), they don't help with social skills. Having an avatar interact with other avatars is psychologically quite different from interacting with someone in front of you.
I could have sworn that at one time, the Athlon was king of the world, then the Core 2 Duo's came out and Intel was king of the world since because AMD hasn't made a superior CPU.
Is Intel supposed to purposefully degrade the quality of their product? What is it that they did that has the FTC crying foul?
ever waved your hand so fast back and forth that it creates a blur? Ever seen those little things that go back and forth back enough to display an image?
Reality is indeed inherently blurry. It's just hard to accurately portray blur when you're staring at something that's not moving.
That's your brain doing that, I'm sure there are creatures who will see the hand clearly as it moves.
they should pay the recording industry for their work
In a digital age, exactly what is the work of the "recording industry"?
It should be re-named the "collection industry" because all they do is collect money from the work of others.
Distribution costs don't negate production costs. It still costs lots of money to produce an album, whether you distribute it on CD or MP3.
I don't agree with the music industry, but as a musician, I do get pissed off when some people think production is cheap or free. It's not. It takes time, effort, and lots of up front costs. Just because it costs $100/month to distribute them online, it probably cost tens of thousands to produce it, and that's not including the cost of personal instruments.
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They are much less exciting than REAL wars. When will Apple and Nokia build up militias and shoot each other to death while I watch it on my major news source in night vision?
Isn't the only thing separating a Mac from the PC is the OS? People argue that the PC is better mostly from a hardware point of view. Keyboards, mice, easier to mod, extensibility, etc... I don't see why Windows or OSX would have any significant differences in these regards since they have the same hardware and peripherals, and the same access to the game's files for modding purposes.
I would highly recommend purchasing Slysoft's AnyDVD HD. Yes, it will set you back $100, plus about $50/yr (they've gone to subscription since they continuously crack the BR keys - but they are very good at it). Once you have this in place, you can play the content you've purchased on any output from your machine. You can even back up the raw, unencrypted content so that you can play it with any software player which has the base (VC-1/x264) codec installed.
Trust me, if you have a Windows based media PC, you want AnyDVD (HD). And you want to support Slysoft with your money so that they keep on top of the cracks which prevent you from enjoying the items you've purchased.
(note: I am not affiliated in any way with Slysoft, except as a 4+ year satisfied customer with a 300+ title library on HD which I ripped from my own collection)
What about Linux? Right now my media pc is running Win7 and it's doing a perfect job at it, but I own five DVDs. A collection I want to increase now that I own a proper TV. I know that Windows is quite DRM friendly and Linux is not, and XBMC, my media server software of choice, runs on both OSes.
I run a media PC. I want to buy a BD-ROM for it.
It's DVI -> HDMI for video, and a Tascam USB sound module for audio.
Should I be concerned about blurays breaking my setup in any form or fashion?
$8 for a six pack of Moosehead.
$12 for a 12 pack of lakeport.
Cheap rocker bars selling $1-$2 bottles of Molson.
I think the problem with you, is that your standards are far too high.
The question that I want to ask, is why so many Americans etc want to get involved in what is our own choice here in Australia. As a nation we generally like and expect some censorship. What is that to you? What is it to Anonymous? It's our nation and we can do as we like with it.
We elected this government and the previous one which planned the censorship originally. Unlike the USA we actually do have a pretty democratic system here. Let us run our country as we like!
Because when a "respected" nation does something that a "non respected" nation does, then it becomes "respectable". China has draconian monitoring systems to watch its citizens, it's distasteful. The UK has draconian monitoring systems, it's a template for the US. This is why we should be concerned about Australia, because Australia can be used in the "if they can do it so can we" excuse, while China can't.
I pull numbers out of my ass.
If I am ahead of schedule, rock on
If I am directly on schedule, rock on
If I am behind schedule, creatively blame something that is out of my control to begin with, rock on
Disagree on almost every level.
With f2p MMOs, I - not the developer - get to choose IF, WHEN, and HOW MUCH I'm willing to spend on the game. If the game is good, I'll gladly pay to get better gear, charms, etc. If the game sucks, I quit and I'm out of $0.
Compare that to Aion where you PAY $50 for the retail game, then PAY $15 a month just to SEE IF YOU'LL LIKE IT. That, my friend, IS a rip-off.
Obviously, the "race to the top" becomes a big spender's minigame, and you'll end up maxing out a few credit cards to get there, but that's only a minority of the player base.
F2P games were born in Asia, where most players are poor and play mostly from lan houses. So it doesn't make any sense to pay monthly fees.
You're confusing "ripoff" with "gamble".
Because the second sentence was the punch line. I believe YOU fail
Uhm, there is absolutely nothing wrong here. It's amazing how many people feel that their principles have been compromised when really, there is only Google, or Bing, and the rest is just fluff. Besides, it's not as if Ubuntu doesn't empower you to change anything you want.
So really, stop the hyperbole and scaremongering already.
That is what a DRM'ed DVD or MP3 is. You borrow that content.
I own the physical copy of the DVD. I can resell it, loan it out, set it on fire if I want. The idea of DRM is irrelevant to the subject. DRM or no, you don't own digital data.
Even if you buy a book, you don't own the novel, you own the book. The only restrictions borrowed books have over bought books is you have to give them back.
In the essay I pointed to, Doctorow mentions that nobody ever went broke from piracy, but many artists have gone hungry or found other work because of obscurity. Obscurity is the artists' true enemy.
You missed my point though. You buy a DVD, you keep it. You don't own the content, but you still keep it. DRM however, makes that ownership temporary. You may keep the medium, but the content may not last. That's the same principle behind a library. You don't keep the content, you just consume it and give it back.
Most AT&T users could tell you that AT&T really needs to get their shit together. No need for expensive research.
Personally, I am with AT&T now because:
1 - I had to have a GSM phone (CDMA FTL!)
2 - T-Mobile's covereage sucks where I live in Atlanta (or at least it did 18 months ago)
I am pissed and dont have much of a choice - its MaBell of Tmob. Not much is out there that would drive me to the shackles of CDMA hell with BigRed.
If CDMA is faster than light, then why did you go with AT&T?
15% tip is FAR MORE if your service sucks and the tip is required. You know, like AT&T.
After having watched the video linked to from OP, I have to ask: why did that video take a music label to finance it, film it, produce it, distribute it?
It was a frigging marching band, for Grid's sake! They could have gone to a sizable local high school, recruited the cooperation of the band director, and done this entirely by themselves -- including distributing it on YouTube -- for only a few bucks. And they wouldn't have to worry about distribution restrictions, because they wouldn't be owned by a label! And the band would be happy to cooperate if given credit, because they would be famous, if only for a little while.
The video is decent, but there is nothing there that requires any fancy label support or financing. I have seen more impressive shows by high school bands, and I mean that quite literally and sincerely.
Sorry, but the actual product does not back their arguments. I call bullshit.
Others are doing it successfully. If OK Go can't... well... I won't lose sleep over it.
1) Cameras, 2) Camera crews, 3) studio engineers, 4) distribution of video, 5) promotion and marketing and licensing of the video (which involves slashdot's favorite group of people: lawyers), 6) production of the song, 6a) studio engineers, 6b) hired musicians to complement some tracks, 6c) cd/vinyl pressings, 6d) distribution of album.
Do you actually need a label to do all this? No, of course not. But you need money. You need capital to invest. Where will you get it? previous comments have pointed out that banks aren't going to loan musicians money to make an album, but labels will.
The notion that if you give data away you can't make money on it is a fallacy that has been disproven time and again. Libraries have been around for centuries; you can walk in, check out an armful of books for free, and read them, and go back for more. Even a small city's library has more books than one could read, and they're constantly updated with more.
The music industry was sure that radio would kill record sales. Instead, it sold more records. The movie industry was sure that TV would kill the movie industry, but instead it got more people interested in movies. They thought tthe VCR would kill the industry, look what happened. The music industry thought cassettes would kill it, but like the VCR and movies it sold more product.
The established industry is going about digital data backwards. They should use MP3s like thay use radio -- a free lure to get people to shell out cash for physical items.
If giving it away meant that you couldn't sell it, Cory Doctorow would not have been on the New York Times best seller list. Besides libraries, you can get digital copies of his books for free on his website. The forward to Little Brother explains this far better than this slashdot comment; I urge everyone to read that book, or at least the forward.
So, what you're saying is that you support DRM? Because that's what a library is. It's a place to temporarily get your hands on content, consume it, and then give it back. You have no rights to copy/distribute the work you BORROWED. That is what a DRM'ed DVD or MP3 is. You borrow that content. People really need to stop using libraries as some sort of "proof" that free access to content does not deprive money from the creator of the content.
For making the better GPU? :P
Facebook login information is stored on the phone, is it not?
Don't go putting your MMORPG experience on your resume. You will not get hired for one simple fact, people have figured out by now that WoW can cause addiction amongst its players. They are not going to hire you if they think all you're going to do at work is play your MMO.
Secondly, while MMO's can help someone gain leadership and organizational skills (I'd imagine EVE could even teach you some basic economical/business skills), they don't help with social skills. Having an avatar interact with other avatars is psychologically quite different from interacting with someone in front of you.
a big corporation is a big corporation. The name is just a unique identifier.
I could have sworn that at one time, the Athlon was king of the world, then the Core 2 Duo's came out and Intel was king of the world since because AMD hasn't made a superior CPU.
Is Intel supposed to purposefully degrade the quality of their product? What is it that they did that has the FTC crying foul?
Will Boxee be a good media PC application if you don't plan on streaming everything?
eg: if most of my content is on harddrives accessible over the LAN?
what are you talking about?
ever waved your hand so fast back and forth that it creates a blur? Ever seen those little things that go back and forth back enough to display an image?
Reality is indeed inherently blurry. It's just hard to accurately portray blur when you're staring at something that's not moving.
That's your brain doing that, I'm sure there are creatures who will see the hand clearly as it moves.
In a digital age, exactly what is the work of the "recording industry"?
It should be re-named the "collection industry" because all they do is collect money from the work of others.
Distribution costs don't negate production costs. It still costs lots of money to produce an album, whether you distribute it on CD or MP3.
I don't agree with the music industry, but as a musician, I do get pissed off when some people think production is cheap or free. It's not. It takes time, effort, and lots of up front costs. Just because it costs $100/month to distribute them online, it probably cost tens of thousands to produce it, and that's not including the cost of personal instruments.
Uhm, full text indexes truly suck in the context of web application development. Perhaps you should look up Solr next time you need a search engine?
Toronto is on Lake Ontario