it's modded flamebait because it's inflammatory, and provides no reference but the body of text you already linked.
it sounds like one of my madder friends ranting in his facebook statuses, and is an assault on my eyes.
that's why it's modded "flamebait".
give us some backup for this one op-ed by a guy who's vested interests i am too bored to google myself (and hence you should have linked some background on him), otherwise i'll take it as a political (rather than scientific) argument and dismiss it as such.
however, that only suggests a problem with local policy on those islands.
Pacific islands have been inhabited for thousands of years, so they must have been self-sufficient (the Easter Island story notwithstanding - again it was local policy that did them in, in the form of religion). the fact that suddenly some have problems with food supply after a subsidy is offered (to the entire world, mind you) on a crop that can't be eaten implies that the powers that be in those islands decided money was a higher priority than food.
oh yeah. i distinctly remember paying less for Mint than i did for Ubuntu.
jackass.
i've got more desktop environments than i can be bothered using, and most times i stay in unity for one reason or another. could be the small lappy screen.
now, if this Mint fixes the xrandr bounds issue, i'm switching in a second. but last time i tried mint, the hardware support wasn't quite right (strangely as it should be no different from ubuntu), and the file management was actually more annoying. i'm an explorer boy, and actually really like win7's window docking to the sides so i can drag from two places at once (it's swifter than the f3 mode in nautilus, and shits all over the other file managers in all those other distros and desktops).
but yeah, i'm just looking out for a fix to xrandr --scale, cause this tiny screen is killing me, but i stand by my right to use a crappy underpowered eeepc beyond it's design spec until it dies. it's served me well.
oh yeah. i distinctly remember paying less for Mint than i did for Ubuntu.
jackass.
i've got more desktop environments than i can be bothered using, and most times i stay in unity for one reason or another. could be the small lappy screen.
now, if this Mint fixes the xrandr bounds issue, i'm switching in a second. but last time i tried mint, the hardware support wasn't quite right (strangely as it should be no different from ubuntu), and the file management was actually more annoying. i'm an explorer boy, and actually really like win7's window docking to the sides so i can drag from two places at once (it's swifter than the f3 mode in nautilus, and shits all over the other file managers in all those other distros and desktops).
but yeah, i'm just looking out for a fix to xrandr --scale, cause this tiny screen is killing me, but i stand by my right to use a crappy underpowered eeepc beyond it's design spec until it dies. it's served me well.
not much illegally downloaded software could actually be used to kill someone though. at least not something the BSA is interested in. i suppose if you programmed something stuxnet-esque and offered it under a commercial license, you could possibly kill with pirate software.
yes! any media company that would pass up the opportunity to make cash off cases like this and instead reach for the lawyers needs to find some other line of work.
your buying habits don't necessarily reflect those of the core market for Game Of Thrones.
i appreciate your taking the high road, but where there's a will, there's a way, and when there's a way, there's a swarm of arseholes getting something for free. it can't be stopped, it just needs to have the business model tweaked to extract some profit. it's not like your average downloader is poor - certainly my friends aren't. the ones that can't afford the DVD/BD aren't exactly lost sales anyway. no problems there.
doesn't take a year. they could have it in shops the day it screens if they were really on their shit. we do this with "Offspring". it just takes some co-operation.
- get the master from the makers, hopefully they're not so pov that they can send one to you and one to the network for broadcast. the master will be ready well before screening date, hopefully. if it isn't it can be a problem. - send a disc to the OFLC/COB/Classification Board/whatever they're called this week for express classification. this is costly, but not a problem considering the potential sales. - author a DVD and have it ready to send to the replicator at a moment's notice - once classification comes back and you can print the little coloured "MA" square on the disc. - when classification comes through (express is guaranteed within a week), tell the replicators "GO!" and send through the disc artwork. - the finished discs might take a week to be replicated and packed, but it can be sent to shops all over within a couple of days, even in Australia which is a very large country with hardly any people. - stores hold the discs ready for screening day, and when it screens the discs hit the shelves in time for the would-be-downloaders.
i'm not going to judge people for getting for free something which cannot be offered for a fair price in as timely a manner. like the Steam guy says, it's a distribution problem, not a legal problem. suing people only hurts the market.
i believe there's other lanes for that. on any road you're doing that speed on, there'll be other lanes.
if you're not aware of how fast and slow lanes work, YOU should get off the road. people who pass on the wrong side are more dangerous by far than people who take a while to get up to speed.
only problem is a rip is indistinguishable from an unencrypted disc burnt for checking. it makes my job much harder if i can't check the disc that's about to get replicated (and have the AACS crap burnt into it) 10000 times.
well, though it sucks, it's no more lossy than some lossless audio that has been mastered poorly.
cinavia is applied at the sound mix stage as an effect. this is well before it even hits the screen, certainly before it hits blu-ray. so the watermark is part of the mix, and signed off on by the film-makers. in that sense, what's on the blu-ray is a lossless representation of that.
that way even the cam rips will stop playing if the hardware is looking for it.
of course, all the knockoff chinese players will have no trouble. so it's just western media killing western hardware manufacture. (yes, i'm aware that sony is japanese, but lemme tell you, they have the heart and soul of a greedy fat wall street motherfucker)
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it's modded flamebait because it's inflammatory, and provides no reference but the body of text you already linked.
it sounds like one of my madder friends ranting in his facebook statuses, and is an assault on my eyes.
that's why it's modded "flamebait".
give us some backup for this one op-ed by a guy who's vested interests i am too bored to google myself (and hence you should have linked some background on him), otherwise i'll take it as a political (rather than scientific) argument and dismiss it as such.
however, that only suggests a problem with local policy on those islands.
Pacific islands have been inhabited for thousands of years, so they must have been self-sufficient (the Easter Island story notwithstanding - again it was local policy that did them in, in the form of religion). the fact that suddenly some have problems with food supply after a subsidy is offered (to the entire world, mind you) on a crop that can't be eaten implies that the powers that be in those islands decided money was a higher priority than food.
oh yeah. i distinctly remember paying less for Mint than i did for Ubuntu.
jackass.
i've got more desktop environments than i can be bothered using, and most times i stay in unity for one reason or another. could be the small lappy screen.
now, if this Mint fixes the xrandr bounds issue, i'm switching in a second. but last time i tried mint, the hardware support wasn't quite right (strangely as it should be no different from ubuntu), and the file management was actually more annoying. i'm an explorer boy, and actually really like win7's window docking to the sides so i can drag from two places at once (it's swifter than the f3 mode in nautilus, and shits all over the other file managers in all those other distros and desktops).
but yeah, i'm just looking out for a fix to xrandr --scale, cause this tiny screen is killing me, but i stand by my right to use a crappy underpowered eeepc beyond it's design spec until it dies. it's served me well.
oh yeah. i distinctly remember paying less for Mint than i did for Ubuntu.
jackass.
i've got more desktop environments than i can be bothered using, and most times i stay in unity for one reason or another. could be the small lappy screen.
now, if this Mint fixes the xrandr bounds issue, i'm switching in a second. but last time i tried mint, the hardware support wasn't quite right (strangely as it should be no different from ubuntu), and the file management was actually more annoying. i'm an explorer boy, and actually really like win7's window docking to the sides so i can drag from two places at once (it's swifter than the f3 mode in nautilus, and shits all over the other file managers in all those other distros and desktops).
but yeah, i'm just looking out for a fix to xrandr --scale, cause this tiny screen is killing me, but i stand by my right to use a crappy underpowered eeepc beyond it's design spec until it dies. it's served me well.
huh. they couldn't prove God ~doesn't~ exist.
gonna need a better argument than that, though i'm not Monsanto's biggest fan.
no, that's the free market model :)
she probably fapped just as hard to it and never said a word...
love how this got a +5 insightful :)
for post production people, that's just under 2 movies in 4k.
sarcasm meter seems to be suffering some sort of malfunction there.
i like this troll :)
not much illegally downloaded software could actually be used to kill someone though. at least not something the BSA is interested in. i suppose if you programmed something stuxnet-esque and offered it under a commercial license, you could possibly kill with pirate software.
it's not a government site. not at all.
it's a tax-payer funded TV/radio network plus 24 hr news service. it's like the BBC, but in australia (get it? the ABC?).
stupid summary is misleading.
dragon dictate?
yes! any media company that would pass up the opportunity to make cash off cases like this and instead reach for the lawyers needs to find some other line of work.
your buying habits don't necessarily reflect those of the core market for Game Of Thrones.
i appreciate your taking the high road, but where there's a will, there's a way, and when there's a way, there's a swarm of arseholes getting something for free. it can't be stopped, it just needs to have the business model tweaked to extract some profit. it's not like your average downloader is poor - certainly my friends aren't. the ones that can't afford the DVD/BD aren't exactly lost sales anyway. no problems there.
doesn't take a year. they could have it in shops the day it screens if they were really on their shit. we do this with "Offspring". it just takes some co-operation.
- get the master from the makers, hopefully they're not so pov that they can send one to you and one to the network for broadcast. the master will be ready well before screening date, hopefully. if it isn't it can be a problem.
- send a disc to the OFLC/COB/Classification Board/whatever they're called this week for express classification. this is costly, but not a problem considering the potential sales.
- author a DVD and have it ready to send to the replicator at a moment's notice - once classification comes back and you can print the little coloured "MA" square on the disc.
- when classification comes through (express is guaranteed within a week), tell the replicators "GO!" and send through the disc artwork.
- the finished discs might take a week to be replicated and packed, but it can be sent to shops all over within a couple of days, even in Australia which is a very large country with hardly any people.
- stores hold the discs ready for screening day, and when it screens the discs hit the shelves in time for the would-be-downloaders.
i'm not going to judge people for getting for free something which cannot be offered for a fair price in as timely a manner. like the Steam guy says, it's a distribution problem, not a legal problem. suing people only hurts the market.
i believe there's other lanes for that. on any road you're doing that speed on, there'll be other lanes.
if you're not aware of how fast and slow lanes work, YOU should get off the road. people who pass on the wrong side are more dangerous by far than people who take a while to get up to speed.
only problem is a rip is indistinguishable from an unencrypted disc burnt for checking. it makes my job much harder if i can't check the disc that's about to get replicated (and have the AACS crap burnt into it) 10000 times.
well, though it sucks, it's no more lossy than some lossless audio that has been mastered poorly.
cinavia is applied at the sound mix stage as an effect. this is well before it even hits the screen, certainly before it hits blu-ray. so the watermark is part of the mix, and signed off on by the film-makers. in that sense, what's on the blu-ray is a lossless representation of that.
that way even the cam rips will stop playing if the hardware is looking for it.
of course, all the knockoff chinese players will have no trouble. so it's just western media killing western hardware manufacture. (yes, i'm aware that sony is japanese, but lemme tell you, they have the heart and soul of a greedy fat wall street motherfucker)
um, what?
i'm pretty sure you can have solid reds, greens and blues.
we have the technology to print more than one ink in the same place.
the gamut is pretty different compared to the sRGB we're used to, but it's a stretch to say a printer can only do 1 colour at a time.
wow, downmod? i'm only telling the truth. i certainly don't like it.
wtf man?
you get all of my imaginary funny mods.
short sighted energy companies will shit bricks. but smart energy companies will fund fusion etc. and own it all.