They made it, they don't want you to have it unless you fork over the cash
This is exactly true, and they of course have the right to demand the money. I's say the quotation marks are around 'protect' because nothing they can do can actually protect the content from piracy; trusted computing, AAC, HDMI- it's all in vain because ultimately someone will find a way around the protection, and the flood gates will open.
DVD Jon (the guy who cracking DVD encryption is often attributed to) has said he'd probably do so by 2007- it may take him longer, or someone will get there first. The end remains the same; someone will, and all will have been for naught.
Consumers will be pissed off, companies will have spent millions, and pirates will still be able to get their hands on high (or original) quality duplicates of movies.
This new 'feature' of vista is a prime of how extreme DRM measures such as these just piss off consumers, cost everyone a fuckload of money and ultimately don't achieve much in the way of stopping piracy.
Okay skipping the whole thing about the fact that you have to separate the hydrogen and oxygen before burning them, and totally ignoring the fact you have no idea what you're talking about, I'd like to point out that 500MW is a unit of power (1 joule of energy produced/consumed per second), not energy (which is measured in joules).
You might get 500 megajoules out of a kilo of hydrogen, but (very roughly) that's nowhere near enough to last you through the day.
1 liter of petrol (gasoline) contains 34.3 million joules of energy. If I hand you a barrell of the stuff will that do you for the rest of your life?
The only way of getting enough energy out of a kilo of hydrogen to get anyone through a full day is fusion, and they're working on that, very hard in fact.
You are so full of shit (nothing new for an a/c there);
China is a country with a history that goes back ten time further than America, but whose back was broken by Japanese and Russian pressure during World War 2. Mao stabbed his closest party colleagues plus the chinese nationalist army squarely in the back and rose to the top of the pile. There followed 5 decdes of inflicting the worst kind of terror and abject cruelty, killing 70 million of his own people in the process, the Korean and Vietnam wars (for which he was personally responsible).
No-one could have stopped Mao or the CCP, not even Stalin (if he'd wanted to). The chinese will have freedom, but it's going to take longer than a few years.
No, but if you happen to eat a grape, I won't hold it against you. I didn't say that it's right to infringe, I'm saying that it's theft. The GP poster was arguing that it's not theft.
"Copyright Infringement" [fade to black] "It's NOT theft."
Except then you'd' be full of shit, since copyright infringement is theft. However it's the theft of a tiny amount of money from someone who can ususally easily afford the loss (or in the case of something you wouldn't/couldn't buy anyway, the non-loss). Copyright infringement is illegal, and should be illegal; it's how it is defined and punished that should be reexamined and changd.
People should be allowed to make their own perosnal copies of the movies, music and games they purchase without greedy, stupid DRM restrictins. They shouldn't be allowed to freely distribute someone else's hard work to anyone they see fit. They'll do it anyway, and I do it; I just don't pull the wool over my own eyes by trying to claim that it's morally or legally okay.
I've thought this for a while as well; we're dumping so much of our material wealth into landfill, what happens when we run out?
Maybe at that point, the only thing left will be glass and disposable nappies (diapers):)
I read TFA and it contains fuck-all information about the original case. It's a single paragraph plus an illegible copy of the injunction, and lots more linnks to even shorter, more obscurely written stories. Someone needs to wake up and start posting better links.
That's not that old either. The city I live in has been around for more than 900 years, and it's fairly young in global terms. The cities that American bombs pounded the shit out in recent years are more than ten times older than any facet of Americanism, whatever that is.
Almost no part of American culture or settlement can truly be considered ancient. Learn to look at things in perspective.
So Microsoft plan close the gate tight enough so that your security guard can't gain access to the premises, but cheeky bastards can still poke their arms through the bars and swipe your personal data.
It seems that it's not that the drive won't play the movies, it's that there are no HDCP-enabled (crippled) graphics cards out there that will decode the video according to the DRM spec.
After the fiasco with Blu-ray and the required DRM allegedly being a big contributor to the PS3's delays, this is Sony embarrassing themselves with their DRM once again. Situations liek this just give more time for HD-DVD to gain market share while the Japanese giant flounders.
Wrong. A high quality DVD rip of a movie is around 5-7GB. Your definition of high quality must be lacking.
double the resolution, and you end up with at most....
I don't want to double the resolution, I want HD. 1080p video has double the frame rate, a higher colour depth and four times as many pixels as a DVD. With normal MPEG 2 your 8GB DVD becomes more like 64GB. Then factor in your newer compression techniques and we come back down to 30-40GB. You're not going to get a HD movie on a disc for less than 25GB.
Shit, the HD video I shoot with the HDR HC1 isn't even full 1080i res and it comes to 10GB an hour.
Hehe, its getting so that pretty much any clothing made of cloth, has two legs and goes all the way to your ankles comes under trousers, therefore jeans come under the definition in a loose kind of way:)
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Purely for research purposes....... right?
Sandpaper his fingertips!
That'll teach 'im
They made it, they don't want you to have it unless you fork over the cash
This is exactly true, and they of course have the right to demand the money. I's say the quotation marks are around 'protect' because nothing they can do can actually protect the content from piracy; trusted computing, AAC, HDMI- it's all in vain because ultimately someone will find a way around the protection, and the flood gates will open.
DVD Jon (the guy who cracking DVD encryption is often attributed to) has said he'd probably do so by 2007- it may take him longer, or someone will get there first. The end remains the same; someone will, and all will have been for naught.
Consumers will be pissed off, companies will have spent millions, and pirates will still be able to get their hands on high (or original) quality duplicates of movies. This new 'feature' of vista is a prime of how extreme DRM measures such as these just piss off consumers, cost everyone a fuckload of money and ultimately don't achieve much in the way of stopping piracy.
And therein lies the reason for much woe in the world.
You're too full of shit for him to reply in full. It'd take all day.
Which is why I always think police vehicles & helicopters should come equipped with these for reckless idiots with no regard for the lives of others.
Bad boys bad boys, whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do when they designate you? =)
They're keeping that fact quiet, though, as they dont't want to get sued by O'Reilly.
Sounds like a cool competition; a word of warning to entrants- no-one call your project 'Lisa'.
:|
I won't go down too well
Okay skipping the whole thing about the fact that you have to separate the hydrogen and oxygen before burning them, and totally ignoring the fact you have no idea what you're talking about, I'd like to point out that 500MW is a unit of power (1 joule of energy produced/consumed per second), not energy (which is measured in joules).
You might get 500 megajoules out of a kilo of hydrogen, but (very roughly) that's nowhere near enough to last you through the day.
1 liter of petrol (gasoline) contains 34.3 million joules of energy. If I hand you a barrell of the stuff will that do you for the rest of your life?
The only way of getting enough energy out of a kilo of hydrogen to get anyone through a full day is fusion, and they're working on that, very hard in fact.
You are so full of shit (nothing new for an a/c there);
China is a country with a history that goes back ten time further than America, but whose back was broken by Japanese and Russian pressure during World War 2. Mao stabbed his closest party colleagues plus the chinese nationalist army squarely in the back and rose to the top of the pile. There followed 5 decdes of inflicting the worst kind of terror and abject cruelty, killing 70 million of his own people in the process, the Korean and Vietnam wars (for which he was personally responsible).
No-one could have stopped Mao or the CCP, not even Stalin (if he'd wanted to). The chinese will have freedom, but it's going to take longer than a few years.
No, but if you happen to eat a grape, I won't hold it against you. I didn't say that it's right to infringe, I'm saying that it's theft. The GP poster was arguing that it's not theft.
"Copyright Infringement" [fade to black] "It's NOT theft."
Except then you'd' be full of shit, since copyright infringement is theft. However it's the theft of a tiny amount of money from someone who can ususally easily afford the loss (or in the case of something you wouldn't/couldn't buy anyway, the non-loss). Copyright infringement is illegal, and should be illegal; it's how it is defined and punished that should be reexamined and changd.
People should be allowed to make their own perosnal copies of the movies, music and games they purchase without greedy, stupid DRM restrictins. They shouldn't be allowed to freely distribute someone else's hard work to anyone they see fit. They'll do it anyway, and I do it; I just don't pull the wool over my own eyes by trying to claim that it's morally or legally okay.
'A month before delivery, you don't have SPRs,' Azmi said. 'You're making things pretty. . . . You're changing colors.'"
So that is what Microsoft are doing with Vista. We should have known!
I've thought this for a while as well; we're dumping so much of our material wealth into landfill, what happens when we run out? Maybe at that point, the only thing left will be glass and disposable nappies (diapers) :)
BTW has anyone *seen* mine? It was small...... about thumb sized.
:|
I want one with GPS and a transmitter so i can track it's whereabouts
Of course running VirtualPC is like having schizophrenia, and remote desktop is either an out-of-body experience, or mind control.
Blonde moments are, of course as a result of dodgy drivers.
So long as the CDC don't manage to install a back orifice, we shouldnt worry too much.
I read TFA and it contains fuck-all information about the original case. It's a single paragraph plus an illegible copy of the injunction, and lots more linnks to even shorter, more obscurely written stories. Someone needs to wake up and start posting better links.
That's not that old either. The city I live in has been around for more than 900 years, and it's fairly young in global terms. The cities that American bombs pounded the shit out in recent years are more than ten times older than any facet of Americanism, whatever that is.
Almost no part of American culture or settlement can truly be considered ancient. Learn to look at things in perspective.
I hear Cortana does a mean chocolate brownie, however Master Chief keeps eating most of the mixture before she's finished. he never listens to her :|
captcha: 'maleness'.... how fitting.
One of these maybe?
Meh well i was going a bit high in saying 1080p; yea 1080i is 60/50 fields or 30/25 frames a second.
/resumes dreaming of a 1080p TV and source
So Microsoft plan close the gate tight enough so that your security guard can't gain access to the premises, but cheeky bastards can still poke their arms through the bars and swipe your personal data.
:|
Wonderful
It seems that it's not that the drive won't play the movies, it's that there are no HDCP-enabled (crippled) graphics cards out there that will decode the video according to the DRM spec.
After the fiasco with Blu-ray and the required DRM allegedly being a big contributor to the PS3's delays, this is Sony embarrassing themselves with their DRM once again. Situations liek this just give more time for HD-DVD to gain market share while the Japanese giant flounders.
"A high quality DVD rip of a movie is around 2GB"
Wrong. A high quality DVD rip of a movie is around 5-7GB. Your definition of high quality must be lacking.
double the resolution, and you end up with at most....
I don't want to double the resolution, I want HD. 1080p video has double the frame rate, a higher colour depth and four times as many pixels as a DVD. With normal MPEG 2 your 8GB DVD becomes more like 64GB. Then factor in your newer compression techniques and we come back down to 30-40GB. You're not going to get a HD movie on a disc for less than 25GB.
Shit, the HD video I shoot with the HDR HC1 isn't even full 1080i res and it comes to 10GB an hour.
Hehe, its getting so that pretty much any clothing made of cloth, has two legs and goes all the way to your ankles comes under trousers, therefore jeans come under the definition in a loose kind of way :)