We just recognize the stupidity of suggesting a pissant operation like the one in TFA could believably produce something that would fool a blind retard, much less an entire jury, and all the assorted individuals involved in such a case.
because if the government wanted to shut someone up, it would be ONLY that pissant operation, and not the pissant operation acting by proxy right?
I have to wonder what is wrong with you that you find the need to rant against the dismissal of what is, without doubt, a moronic assertion in the first place.
someone has never been on the butt end of national:local:social: office:schoolyard politics before, oh wait if you post here you have. Maybe you just don't remember it?
Until they remove the DRM from these formats, upconverting DVD players (or a 2-4 year old apple laptop/mini attached to your TV running apple dvd player) will provide a superior experience.
They smooth out artefacting and put it through post-processing which looks better, with less hassle, than a "down-rezed" version, and almost indistinguishable from most movies released on blu-ray.
Im sure this may change as more films are shot using methods which optimize HD presentation, but it won't matter much if the format dies long before hand, as news reports have been indicating for quite some time.
It's important to be careful when using watern injection geothermal generation, as this activity has been shown to cause minor but noticeable seismic activity.
in a day where a few people in their basement can render decent cgi, I'm wondering if this "third firm" was not hired to do a little "extraordinary rendering"
For best results, one should loosen their tin-foil hat occasionally.
Just sayin'.
Funny how everyone here is fully aware of the capabilities of our current state of technology in the hands of people with enough resources, yet when someone suggests an actual, real-world possibility for misuse, or the possibility of despotism it's "tinfoil hat" time.
I'm not saying they're doing it to me, or that they're in the walls, but seriously, have those lessons of the mccarthy and now bush eras gone straight out the other ear? I suppose GITMO doesn't exist? I suppose every single protestor is an "anarchist" just like the news says?
After two local data recovery firms said there was no way to restore the data, a third was able to recover the police interview from two years earlier, which led the defendant to plead guilty earlier this month. Close call.
in a day where a few people in their basement can render decent cgi, I'm wondering if this "third firm" was not hired to do a little "extraordinary rendering"
Name one. This was an issue a decade ago today I don't know of any.
Because of how broken some of the thoughts are, I'm assuming english was not the first language of this individual: "teaching a job"
The thought "Many serious consider Free OS invalid" seems similarly stilted, and It follows the thought may not have fully traversed the language barrier.
If you are looking at specific needs and specific situations, you actually are looking at instances in which a free operating system might not be a viable option. For instance, changing the computer systems to OSS might be far more expensive for an organization which already has hundreds or thousands of windows mobile smart-phones deployed.
Teachers are incredibly undereducated when it comes to technology.
Why the colleges that teach these teachers are choosing to NOT require classes in technology is beyond me.
I don't believe you have done much research on this, but the lack of compensation has created some serious shortages. While the pay is not utterly horrific considering the attached benefits, the hoops you jump through and the environment in which you work should demand more.
I'm sure, however, that the collapsing economy will result in expanding pools for these positions, as they still provide insurance, pension, and a baseline income, which is more security than many.
First rule of high school is -- don't point out that the teacher knows less than you do. The second rule of course is, if you break the first rule do so in an epic way.
You mean like bringing the ire of slashdot down on one teacher's poor head for that lack of knowledge?
I'm against it too, but to have the same thing duplicated so many times as to exclude all other substantive comments undermines the purpose of the blog
PC's are too "open" for the comfort of many industries. By moving focus to more restrictive consoles, companies regain their control. Once they have control, the ability to push ads you can't block, monitor what you're doing for marketing, and limit what you are allowed to do or not do with media, consoles will eventually come full-circle so that users will eventually be using them for the same things PC users have been, only in safe, friendly, controlled environment.
The multitude of abilities are more easily accessed via keyboard and mouse, and there is a guarantee of enough space for patches/expansions/what have you.
For every other genre though, i agree a console is better.
The point of class actions is to tell companies to stop doing something harmful to the public in the only language they know how: money.
some messages brought to companies through lawsuits:
"don't sell cars that explode at the slightest touch" "don't dump toxic waste on, near, or into waterways servicing residential land" "make your QA better on safety equipment" "don't put cameras in bathrooms" "don't help the government spy on us without a warrant".. and many, many more.
A lawsuit against Nintendo for a broken TV? What is next? A lawsuit against football manufacturers for broken windows? When I was a kid, I learned that toys can be used to break stuff. It is a valuable lesson.
a fun lesson as well : )
and it's also commutative.. stuff can be used to break toys as well.
the latest archive seems to be utterly riddled with dupes, pretty much all of them focused on the war on drugs, to the exclusion of almost all other issues, including an economy quickly sliding to 1933 levels.
I say they need to go through multiple rounds of moderation.
First to categorize them generally, then to choose the best from those categories to avoid most dupes.
i've been taking notes on this as it's crossed my mind and may some day write a paper or book on it "the alternative to democracy"
one of the biggest problems which is making this more and more evident today is the fact that, until recently, the world was simple enough to get a basic understanding of how everything works.
It's no longer the case anymore, and this allows politicians to pull blatant stunts of corruption and claim any experts that speak against it are a "fringe group".
Now, all the lobbyists and cronies have to do is buy a few tv spots on prime-time to drive their soundbytes into an even more clueless public's collective heads, and let THEM do all the work.
Much more efficient.
"downloading is wrong" (the elderly, clueless parents, and others not savvy enough with the internet) "damn those gay people" (the "liberal" state of california) "we need more racial profiling so no towel heads destroy the sears tower" (middle america) "if you tax rich people, their businesses will never hire anyone" (the clueless idiots who have never seen basic accounting practices at work)
You are acting vindicated that mob rule is determining what crosses the president's desk?
in a nation ruled by television, do you think anything remotely related to copyright reform will make it through the mindless hordes who will mod it down "because hanna montana say's downloading is bad" into obama's "must read list"?
What about gay rights, which a majority of citizens in "the people's republic of california" voted to strip away?
I'm sorry, but "change" doesn't happen when the mindless hordes are deciding what crosses the president's desk.
Actually, it's my understanding the most people on/. don't have trouble with respecting the originally intended copyright bargain, but that the DMCA is strangling the tech sector.
It's unsurprising then that, on a tech news site, the resident populace has an unceasing rage against the DMCA and DRM in general, which is basically legal protectionism of intentional incompatibility.
Slashdot Mirror
We just recognize the stupidity of suggesting a pissant operation like the one in TFA could believably produce something that would fool a blind retard, much less an entire jury, and all the assorted individuals involved in such a case.
because if the government wanted to shut someone up, it would be ONLY that pissant operation, and not the pissant operation acting by proxy right?
I have to wonder what is wrong with you that you find the need to rant against the dismissal of what is, without doubt, a moronic assertion in the first place.
someone has never been on the butt end of national:local:social: office:schoolyard politics before, oh wait if you post here you have. Maybe you just don't remember it?
Until they remove the DRM from these formats, upconverting DVD players (or a 2-4 year old apple laptop/mini attached to your TV running apple dvd player) will provide a superior experience.
They smooth out artefacting and put it through post-processing which looks better, with less hassle, than a "down-rezed" version, and almost indistinguishable from most movies released on blu-ray.
Im sure this may change as more films are shot using methods which optimize HD presentation, but it won't matter much if the format dies long before hand, as news reports have been indicating for quite some time.
i get tired of fallacy by oversimplification gaining voice over a complicated reality.
and stays within the bounds of the law.
you mean the century of case law that says we the people have the right to time-shift, space-shift, and format-shift content we buy?
I don't think so. If it were true then there wouldn't be a massive market for this.
Also, them changing the system and people needing to figure out which cup they hid the pea under doesn't mean it "worked"
It's important to be careful when using watern injection geothermal generation, as this activity has been shown to cause minor but noticeable seismic activity.
I think you overestimate the resources of the Santa Cruz police.
McCarthy? Bush? GITMO?? Seriously, Santa Cruz isn't exactly playing in that world.
yes, because if such a job were to be done, it would be a federal prosecution and not delgated to a smaller, less significant branch.
For best results, one should loosen their tin-foil hat occasionally.
Just sayin'.
Funny how everyone here is fully aware of the capabilities of our current state of technology in the hands of people with enough resources, yet when someone suggests an actual, real-world possibility for misuse, or the possibility of despotism it's "tinfoil hat" time.
I'm not saying they're doing it to me, or that they're in the walls, but seriously, have those lessons of the mccarthy and now bush eras gone straight out the other ear? I suppose GITMO doesn't exist? I suppose every single protestor is an "anarchist" just like the news says?
After two local data recovery firms said there was no way to restore the data, a third was able to recover the police interview from two years earlier, which led the defendant to plead guilty earlier this month. Close call.
in a day where a few people in their basement can render decent cgi, I'm wondering if this "third firm" was not hired to do a little "extraordinary rendering"
butcher of bakersfield anyone?
Why are we changing now.. I thought the agreement was:
if she floats->she's made of wood->she's a witch
Had did this flamebait get modded +5?
Many [experts] serious consider Free OS invalid.
Name one. This was an issue a decade ago today I don't know of any.
Because of how broken some of the thoughts are, I'm assuming english was not the first language of this individual:
"teaching a job"
The thought "Many serious consider Free OS invalid" seems similarly stilted, and It follows the thought may not have fully traversed the language barrier.
If you are looking at specific needs and specific situations, you actually are looking at instances in which a free operating system might not be a viable option. For instance, changing the computer systems to OSS might be far more expensive for an organization which already has hundreds or thousands of windows mobile smart-phones deployed.
Teachers are incredibly undereducated when it comes to technology.
Why the colleges that teach these teachers are choosing to NOT require classes in technology is beyond me.
I don't believe you have done much research on this, but the lack of compensation has created some serious shortages.
While the pay is not utterly horrific considering the attached benefits, the hoops you jump through and the environment in which you work should demand more.
I'm sure, however, that the collapsing economy will result in expanding pools for these positions, as they still provide insurance, pension, and a baseline income, which is more security than many.
First rule of high school is -- don't point out that the teacher knows less than you do. The second rule of course is, if you break the first rule do so in an epic way.
You mean like bringing the ire of slashdot down on one teacher's poor head for that lack of knowledge?
I'm against it too, but to have the same thing duplicated so many times as to exclude all other substantive comments undermines the purpose of the blog
PC's are too "open" for the comfort of many industries. By moving focus to more restrictive consoles, companies regain their control. Once they have control, the ability to push ads you can't block, monitor what you're doing for marketing, and limit what you are allowed to do or not do with media, consoles will eventually come full-circle so that users will eventually be using them for the same things PC users have been, only in safe, friendly, controlled environment.
Suckers.
that's what mod chips are for.
I have one thing to add to this.
MMO's are preferably played on PC's.
The multitude of abilities are more easily accessed via keyboard and mouse, and there is a guarantee of enough space for patches/expansions/what have you.
For every other genre though, i agree a console is better.
The point of class actions is to tell companies to stop doing something harmful to the public in the only language they know how: money.
some messages brought to companies through lawsuits:
"don't sell cars that explode at the slightest touch" .. and many, many more.
"don't dump toxic waste on, near, or into waterways servicing residential land"
"make your QA better on safety equipment"
"don't put cameras in bathrooms"
"don't help the government spy on us without a warrant"
A lawsuit against Nintendo for a broken TV? What is next? A lawsuit against football manufacturers for broken windows? When I was a kid, I learned that toys can be used to break stuff. It is a valuable lesson.
a fun lesson as well : )
and it's also commutative.. stuff can be used to break toys as well.
And yet compact fluorescents are moving onto the market with little resistance.
actually I remember hearing news reports about child safety groups trying to launch a lawsuit because of the mercury in those things.
Try to sell an inferior product at a higher price with nothing more than a law that most people see as antiquated, and it's not going to fly.
but ford's been selling the mustang for years.. oh wait (sorry I had to!)
the latest archive seems to be utterly riddled with dupes, pretty much all of them focused on the war on drugs, to the exclusion of almost all other issues, including an economy quickly sliding to 1933 levels.
I say they need to go through multiple rounds of moderation.
First to categorize them generally, then to choose the best from those categories to avoid most dupes.
mod parent up.
i've been taking notes on this as it's crossed my mind and may some day write a paper or book on it "the alternative to democracy"
one of the biggest problems which is making this more and more evident today is the fact that, until recently, the world was simple enough to get a basic understanding of how everything works.
It's no longer the case anymore, and this allows politicians to pull blatant stunts of corruption and claim any experts that speak against it are a "fringe group".
Now, all the lobbyists and cronies have to do is buy a few tv spots on prime-time to drive their soundbytes into an even more clueless public's collective heads, and let THEM do all the work.
Much more efficient.
"downloading is wrong" (the elderly, clueless parents, and others not savvy enough with the internet)
"damn those gay people" (the "liberal" state of california)
"we need more racial profiling so no towel heads destroy the sears tower" (middle america)
"if you tax rich people, their businesses will never hire anyone" (the clueless idiots who have never seen basic accounting practices at work)
You are acting vindicated that mob rule is determining what crosses the president's desk?
in a nation ruled by television, do you think anything remotely related to copyright reform will make it through the mindless hordes who will mod it down "because hanna montana say's downloading is bad" into obama's "must read list"?
What about gay rights, which a majority of citizens in "the people's republic of california" voted to strip away?
I'm sorry, but "change" doesn't happen when the mindless hordes are deciding what crosses the president's desk.
Really, I've no idea why, but nobody cared. At all.
"Godwin's law! Godwin's law!"
ok, with that out of the way.
Metallica is to the internet, p2p, and college students everywhere what hitler was to judaism.
If you were just beaten by your husband and he went all 'honeymoon phase' on you, would you actually believe him or would you recoil in disgust?
Actually, it's my understanding the most people on /. don't have trouble with respecting the originally intended copyright bargain, but that the DMCA is strangling the tech sector.
It's unsurprising then that, on a tech news site, the resident populace has an unceasing rage against the DMCA and DRM in general, which is basically legal protectionism of intentional incompatibility.