I use Windows at work so that would be fine, but I'm using OSX when I get home (on the same laptop), and also have a Squeezebox and PS3 that I could use to stream media too (though I haven't used the Squeezebox for quite a while seeing as I'm mostly playing the PS3 or watching blu-rays/DVDs/TV:p ). DRM restrictions are just too limiting with what I can do in the future:/ Which is why I prefer to have the CDs, then I can take my music in the car or rerip it as lossless if I buy a soundsystem worthy of that (which would first require me having no neighbours otherwise I wouldn't be able to turn it up) and have enough storage. I re-ripped most of my music as 192kbps MP3s last year to make better use of a nice set of headphones I bought, but my current laptop wouldn't manage to store everything in FLAC format. I have a 500GB NAS box but that's not much use for taking to work with me, and I cba reripping everything again at the moment, it takes aaaages..:P
One example of how much DRM sucks is that I've not listened to the first Kings of Leon album in years just because it had CD ripping protection on it. I could copy it then rip it, but it's obviously not exactly something I think of very often, and it requires digging through a box of CDs so I've just never got round to doing it.
But like I said, I consider the whole thing bollocks now, and the whole fact that people still argue so much about different interpretations of the bible etc just shows how tribal people are, they'll argue about anything.
Pot, meet kettle.
I'm quite aware of how ironic it is. I don't agree with your interpretation of certain passages simply because I've had other interpretations beaten into me my whole life. You believe that, I believed something else. Whatever people believe, they'll look for things to back themselves up and brush over the rest. Yes, I've done that, and I expect you do it too because everyone does it. Everyone who complains about global warming yet still keeps driving to work instead of moving job/home to somewhere where they won't need to, etc etc.
My own particular view is now that all of the bible man-made anyway, so the interpretations are pretty much a moot point and I'm not going to continue to argue them with you:p Perhaps you're 100% right and the Christian God does exist, and the Roman Catholic church was the true denomination. The probabilities of that are IMO rather small though. I suppose perhaps the pope believes he is genuinely God's appointed servant as much as the minister's of my old denomination, so perhaps I shouldn't resent him anymore either, as he is no more misguided than any other religious person. Not everyon can be right, and I find it hard to believe that anyone even is right when it comes to beliefs. I just hope that if there is a God, that he is very understanding.
He points out that he has had a look himself, but he doesn't seem to have heard of version tracking software, or cpmsoders it overly complex for their needs. Personally I've never used any myself, but it sounds about right for this type of task.
I more thinking of just driving small delivery vans actually, there is a Dingbros just across the road and I used to wonder about applying for a job there. Driving a full sized lorry takes a lot more skill (even changing gear sounds pretty complicated) and planning ahead, I have a lot of respect for lorry drivers!
£24k is pretty good - not much less than I'm getting right now and I'm perfectly happy with that.
I passed my "Advanced Driving" test earlier this year and know I'm a good driver compared to most people on the road (not just my own big headed opinion, I was told so by the instructor, who has been a police driving instructor for over 30 years), but stupidly I got caught for speeding earlier this year and got myself a nice 3 month ban, which I'm not particularly proud of. I thought it was a strange turn of events that I was being a much more considerate and aware driver in populated areas than before my course, but because I chose to break the speed limit on a virtually deserted motorway - statistically probably the safest place to be on the road - I managed to get a ban. I've never even had any points before, and didn't get any with the ban either thankfully. Hopefully 3 months of no driving won't have made me too rusty. I've suprisingly not been missing it much either - it's actually been quite nice walking around during the summer months, getting some exercise while everyone else complains about the crazy price of fuel..
That's the whole point - it's all easily defeatable. That Macrovision stuff just sounds like an early version of HDMI. So in that case you just need to use recording and playback hardware that doesn't use Macrovision, or you record the entire signal that's coming across to include their little "off-screen signal" or whatever they're using.
Actually I'm Scottish and it just makes me think of Metal Gear Solid >.> A mix of FOX and 'Ottacon'. Perhaps with a really heavy fake accent like Fat Bastard from Austin Powers or Groundskeeper Willy it would sound like fuxconn though, hehe.
The Random Victim Limerick Troll: he likes to poke fun at our holes. He clicks 'post anon' as he shouts at his mom - cause the basement is getting too cold.
If they just found the tech then they didn't create it. Likewise if they evolved the ability to live in both space and on our planet then they didn't specifically create it either. Do you honestly think there is any way to develop faster than light transportation without having advanced scientific knowledge? I know we don't know the way to do it ourselves so perhaps the answer is simpler than we expect.. but that is highly unlikely.. to go faster than light without even having a concept of what light, heat etc are just seems too far fetched. People take the whole devil's advocate thing too far sometimes..
I didn't mean that the concept itself is a bad idea, it 'makes sense' from a rental perspective sure - but if someone can see it, they can record it. Maybe HDMI makes it more difficult to record digitally, but there is always the analog hole. You could for exampe setup a HD camera perfectly aligned in front of a HDTV and record a movie that way. Not the best way to copy a movie at all, but it definitely is an option.
Excuse me, but how does being almost exactly but not quite as good as average deserve any measure of respect?
Try visiting youtube and reading the comments to see just how respectable the IQ of your average person is. Hell, try reading slashdot for a few minutes.. I'd expect a lot of people here to have >100 IQ, but that doesn't mean the things they often come out with are respectable;)
Like I said we only talked one time. My ears possibly still stuck out back then, I had an operation on them around 6th year. My name is Alistair Stewart, you probably knew my uncle Ken Stewart and I work for him now as the IT 'Manager', basically I do everything from their application maintenance to IT support and sysadmin stuff. I expect you'd know Ken at least as he was an elder and usually has loads of students round for Sunday lunch. My dad was Alex Stewart, he did the precenting sometimes and was a bit of a geek (and I now do his job as he died shortly before I started Uni), but I don't know if you would have spoken to him:p
You'd still be walking in a 'straight line' in one dimension at least, even if the overall vector is constanting changing. Sure the world itself is curved, but that doesn't mean we can't build a flat platform (such as a roof) and walk in an almost perfectly straight line over it. People have probably known for longer than you think that if you keep walking you will travel around the world btw. The idea that until very recently people thought of the world as 'flat' is a myth - the greeks have known about the world being round for at least 1600 years. Apparently Columbus thought the world was pear shaped. Anyway, your point is still valid, but I think people too often like to assume that our ancestors were all idiots. If you look out to sea at the horizon and compare it to a flat surface (like a fence alongside a boulevard) then you can see the curvature quite clearly.
You, 'sir', are incredibly arrogant and closed minded! Sure, as a species we know a lot more than we did even 100 years ago - but it is extremely foolish to assume that means we know the majority of things there are to know about physics.
Sometimes the more you learn about something, the more you realise that there is so much more that you don't understand about it yet. I can tell how little you understand this by the tone of your post, as well as its inappropriate use of apostrophes.
nobody would have seen them and there'd be no conspiracy theories to begin with.
So you're saying that all conspiracy theories have to be based on truth? If something goes missing from the fridge at work, it must be aliens? Not just someone at work taking stealing your food? Likewise any strange craft seen in the sky could just be the Skunkworks' latest experiment.. generally conspiracy theories are just illogical paranoia.
Maybe they can't stop a whole fleet, but a large group of whales in a co-ordinated attack could probbaly take on one whaling vessel. Likewise a million guys with bows and arrows could overcome an SAS squad pretty easily. Parking in an area without a lot of traffic is pretty sensible.. you don't just park a million dollar sports car on the street in a poor area of town - at the very least it will get vandalised, if not stolen.
Of course aliens could have forcefields or I suppose they could simply massively irradiate the area surrounding the ship, so it would be pretty difficult for anyone to mess with them in that case.
They may not have heard of 'radio waves', but any species advanced enough to create efficient methods for interstellar travel would have to be quite aware of radiation and the electromagnetic spectrum. What does using amazing technology or not listening to the radio have to do with being dumb?
To find monkeys with stone axes, you'd have to find a planet with land and water mass.. which requires very specialised conditions. Any other planets capable of sustaining life would likely be water planets (it's currently assumed that our planet had a lot of atmosphere and land mass ejected when hit by a massive object, and the stuff that was ejected came together and formed our moon), and therefore it would be pretty difficult for the inhabitants to evolve to be able to develop even writing technology, nevermind intergalactic travel..
Our planet is also protected from most asteroids by Jupiter and its massive gravity well - if we didn't have Jupiter then there would be much less chance of life being able to evolve on earth because we'd be getting hit by more interstellar objects..
So basically the chances of other races with FTL travel is probably even more remote than you think. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it's pretty difficult. Maybe more likely is that there would be beings from another dimension (a la Indiana Jones:P )
Are you kidding? I wouldn't have thought that slashdotters would go for DRMed music. I did buy a couple of albums from iTunes as a test, one ended up being DRMed and the other wasn't - I just burned it to CD and ripped it again. I know I'll have lost some quality, but if I ever use iTunes again I'm going to make sure the songs are 'iTunes plus'.
most DRM is broken
s/most/all/
If you can listen to it, you can record it. That will always be true. DRM for music and video is a completely broken concept.
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I use Windows at work so that would be fine, but I'm using OSX when I get home (on the same laptop), and also have a Squeezebox and PS3 that I could use to stream media too (though I haven't used the Squeezebox for quite a while seeing as I'm mostly playing the PS3 or watching blu-rays/DVDs/TV :p ). DRM restrictions are just too limiting with what I can do in the future :/ Which is why I prefer to have the CDs, then I can take my music in the car or rerip it as lossless if I buy a soundsystem worthy of that (which would first require me having no neighbours otherwise I wouldn't be able to turn it up) and have enough storage. I re-ripped most of my music as 192kbps MP3s last year to make better use of a nice set of headphones I bought, but my current laptop wouldn't manage to store everything in FLAC format. I have a 500GB NAS box but that's not much use for taking to work with me, and I cba reripping everything again at the moment, it takes aaaages.. :P
One example of how much DRM sucks is that I've not listened to the first Kings of Leon album in years just because it had CD ripping protection on it. I could copy it then rip it, but it's obviously not exactly something I think of very often, and it requires digging through a box of CDs so I've just never got round to doing it.
Now that's a case mod I could go for.. :)
But like I said, I consider the whole thing bollocks now, and the whole fact that people still argue so much about different interpretations of the bible etc just shows how tribal people are, they'll argue about anything.
Pot, meet kettle.
I'm quite aware of how ironic it is. I don't agree with your interpretation of certain passages simply because I've had other interpretations beaten into me my whole life. You believe that, I believed something else. Whatever people believe, they'll look for things to back themselves up and brush over the rest. Yes, I've done that, and I expect you do it too because everyone does it. Everyone who complains about global warming yet still keeps driving to work instead of moving job/home to somewhere where they won't need to, etc etc.
My own particular view is now that all of the bible man-made anyway, so the interpretations are pretty much a moot point and I'm not going to continue to argue them with you :p Perhaps you're 100% right and the Christian God does exist, and the Roman Catholic church was the true denomination. The probabilities of that are IMO rather small though. I suppose perhaps the pope believes he is genuinely God's appointed servant as much as the minister's of my old denomination, so perhaps I shouldn't resent him anymore either, as he is no more misguided than any other religious person. Not everyon can be right, and I find it hard to believe that anyone even is right when it comes to beliefs. I just hope that if there is a God, that he is very understanding.
He points out that he has had a look himself, but he doesn't seem to have heard of version tracking software, or cpmsoders it overly complex for their needs. Personally I've never used any myself, but it sounds about right for this type of task.
I more thinking of just driving small delivery vans actually, there is a Dingbros just across the road and I used to wonder about applying for a job there. Driving a full sized lorry takes a lot more skill (even changing gear sounds pretty complicated) and planning ahead, I have a lot of respect for lorry drivers!
£24k is pretty good - not much less than I'm getting right now and I'm perfectly happy with that.
I passed my "Advanced Driving" test earlier this year and know I'm a good driver compared to most people on the road (not just my own big headed opinion, I was told so by the instructor, who has been a police driving instructor for over 30 years), but stupidly I got caught for speeding earlier this year and got myself a nice 3 month ban, which I'm not particularly proud of. I thought it was a strange turn of events that I was being a much more considerate and aware driver in populated areas than before my course, but because I chose to break the speed limit on a virtually deserted motorway - statistically probably the safest place to be on the road - I managed to get a ban. I've never even had any points before, and didn't get any with the ban either thankfully. Hopefully 3 months of no driving won't have made me too rusty. I've suprisingly not been missing it much either - it's actually been quite nice walking around during the summer months, getting some exercise while everyone else complains about the crazy price of fuel..
That's the whole point - it's all easily defeatable. That Macrovision stuff just sounds like an early version of HDMI. So in that case you just need to use recording and playback hardware that doesn't use Macrovision, or you record the entire signal that's coming across to include their little "off-screen signal" or whatever they're using.
Perhaps he believed that if they all died at the same time they'd go off to be together? Or perhaps he was just a complete dick.
Actually I'm Scottish and it just makes me think of Metal Gear Solid >.> A mix of FOX and 'Ottacon'. Perhaps with a really heavy fake accent like Fat Bastard from Austin Powers or Groundskeeper Willy it would sound like fuxconn though, hehe.
I love repetitive humour, you insensitive clod!
*cough*
So what you're essentially saying is that Captain Planet is what you get when you eat a really spicy burrito?
Wind? Check.
Watery eyes? Check.
Heartburn? Check
I think you might have forgotten something like Earth, but that one links in quite well with Wind.
The Random Victim Limerick Troll:
he likes to poke fun at our holes.
He clicks 'post anon'
as he shouts at his mom -
cause the basement is getting too cold.
If they just found the tech then they didn't create it. Likewise if they evolved the ability to live in both space and on our planet then they didn't specifically create it either. Do you honestly think there is any way to develop faster than light transportation without having advanced scientific knowledge? I know we don't know the way to do it ourselves so perhaps the answer is simpler than we expect.. but that is highly unlikely.. to go faster than light without even having a concept of what light, heat etc are just seems too far fetched. People take the whole devil's advocate thing too far sometimes..
I didn't mean that the concept itself is a bad idea, it 'makes sense' from a rental perspective sure - but if someone can see it, they can record it. Maybe HDMI makes it more difficult to record digitally, but there is always the analog hole. You could for exampe setup a HD camera perfectly aligned in front of a HDTV and record a movie that way. Not the best way to copy a movie at all, but it definitely is an option.
So that's what happened to John Mclean after Die Hard 4.0 - he grew a beard and started doing hip-hop videos on rivers of calcite crystals!
Excuse me, but how does being almost exactly but not quite as good as average deserve any measure of respect?
Try visiting youtube and reading the comments to see just how respectable the IQ of your average person is. Hell, try reading slashdot for a few minutes.. I'd expect a lot of people here to have >100 IQ, but that doesn't mean the things they often come out with are respectable ;)
Like I said we only talked one time. My ears possibly still stuck out back then, I had an operation on them around 6th year. My name is Alistair Stewart, you probably knew my uncle Ken Stewart and I work for him now as the IT 'Manager', basically I do everything from their application maintenance to IT support and sysadmin stuff. I expect you'd know Ken at least as he was an elder and usually has loads of students round for Sunday lunch. My dad was Alex Stewart, he did the precenting sometimes and was a bit of a geek (and I now do his job as he died shortly before I started Uni), but I don't know if you would have spoken to him :p
You'd still be walking in a 'straight line' in one dimension at least, even if the overall vector is constanting changing. Sure the world itself is curved, but that doesn't mean we can't build a flat platform (such as a roof) and walk in an almost perfectly straight line over it. People have probably known for longer than you think that if you keep walking you will travel around the world btw. The idea that until very recently people thought of the world as 'flat' is a myth - the greeks have known about the world being round for at least 1600 years. Apparently Columbus thought the world was pear shaped. Anyway, your point is still valid, but I think people too often like to assume that our ancestors were all idiots. If you look out to sea at the horizon and compare it to a flat surface (like a fence alongside a boulevard) then you can see the curvature quite clearly.
Wow. Talk about *whoosh*!
You, 'sir', are incredibly arrogant and closed minded! Sure, as a species we know a lot more than we did even 100 years ago - but it is extremely foolish to assume that means we know the majority of things there are to know about physics.
Sometimes the more you learn about something, the more you realise that there is so much more that you don't understand about it yet. I can tell how little you understand this by the tone of your post, as well as its inappropriate use of apostrophes.
nobody would have seen them and there'd be no conspiracy theories to begin with.
So you're saying that all conspiracy theories have to be based on truth? If something goes missing from the fridge at work, it must be aliens? Not just someone at work taking stealing your food? Likewise any strange craft seen in the sky could just be the Skunkworks' latest experiment.. generally conspiracy theories are just illogical paranoia.
Maybe they can't stop a whole fleet, but a large group of whales in a co-ordinated attack could probbaly take on one whaling vessel. Likewise a million guys with bows and arrows could overcome an SAS squad pretty easily. Parking in an area without a lot of traffic is pretty sensible.. you don't just park a million dollar sports car on the street in a poor area of town - at the very least it will get vandalised, if not stolen.
Of course aliens could have forcefields or I suppose they could simply massively irradiate the area surrounding the ship, so it would be pretty difficult for anyone to mess with them in that case.
They may not have heard of 'radio waves', but any species advanced enough to create efficient methods for interstellar travel would have to be quite aware of radiation and the electromagnetic spectrum. What does using amazing technology or not listening to the radio have to do with being dumb?
He's got a board, with a nail in it! :s
To find monkeys with stone axes, you'd have to find a planet with land and water mass.. which requires very specialised conditions. Any other planets capable of sustaining life would likely be water planets (it's currently assumed that our planet had a lot of atmosphere and land mass ejected when hit by a massive object, and the stuff that was ejected came together and formed our moon), and therefore it would be pretty difficult for the inhabitants to evolve to be able to develop even writing technology, nevermind intergalactic travel..
Our planet is also protected from most asteroids by Jupiter and its massive gravity well - if we didn't have Jupiter then there would be much less chance of life being able to evolve on earth because we'd be getting hit by more interstellar objects..
So basically the chances of other races with FTL travel is probably even more remote than you think. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it's pretty difficult. Maybe more likely is that there would be beings from another dimension (a la Indiana Jones :P )
You don't label all your socks? What if you transfer cotton-dwelling disease from one foot to the other?
Are you kidding? I wouldn't have thought that slashdotters would go for DRMed music. I did buy a couple of albums from iTunes as a test, one ended up being DRMed and the other wasn't - I just burned it to CD and ripped it again. I know I'll have lost some quality, but if I ever use iTunes again I'm going to make sure the songs are 'iTunes plus'.
most DRM is broken
s/most/all/
If you can listen to it, you can record it. That will always be true. DRM for music and video is a completely broken concept.