No DRM,susre, that's great. But these files are hosted by MySpace...I can see my ipod actually melting in my hand while trying to parse all 97 pieces of malicious code tacked on to the file while it sat on their server.
You make an excellent point that locally cached data would help the traffic situation...my view of an ISP and its priorities is twisted by being Australian.
We have a 'last mile' monopoly, as well as an exchange monopoly, a fibre mono...anyway, I get the impression that every last bit that moves along a wire in this country is billed to someone by Telstra.
Wow, the Sony demo looked great, but when Joe Sixpack discovers he needs a $3,000 TV (Plasma, or LCD, by the way?) to take any advantage of his $1500 player (which may or may not still be around in three years, depending on which format wins) which will play a handful of titles, maybe three of which were ever recorded at the resolution he'll be watching at.
There's a shock.
This is funny...last month, I downloaded one linux distro via torrent, it was a dvd iso, can't remember the file size, let's say 4.5GB for argument. The other squillion terabytes I grabbed all came from my ISP's own news server, about a zillion hours of not-so-legal content, all provided at full speed by the guys who'd like to throttle my legal torrent traffic?
If ISPs were that concerned about traffic, they'd close some of the zombie hosts on their own networks sending out billions of spam emails a day.
Mod me redundant, call me a fanboi, point out that I'm mistaking awesomeness with advancement of the genre - see if I care. Unreal Tournament owned my life for some time, and still periodically pops up to hire it for a few weeks. I'm not really into storylines, plots, or even spatially-oriented goals. I used to get sick to frigging death wandering around an empty level looking for the red card. UT was the first game (that I found) where I could tell it to put x number of bloodthirsty maniacs with y skill level in a room with me and get get our frag on. Best FPS evar.
See, I don't actually live with my mother, I was making a point about using someone else's computer. Feel free to replace my examples with any that help you get it.
So many people are posting the same comment..."every browser can clear this data". Sure. However, if I were to, say, surf pr0n on my mother's PC, I think she might be a little unhappy to find her passwords, auto-completes, history etc wiped so I could hide my shame. This sucker fits on a thumb drive, or is a 1 second download from anywhere. I think mum might prefer me to use this rather than take a magnet to her web-life.
The moment I hear a robot tell me "We've now made it easier for you to..." I mash the keypad for three seconds, then scream "HELP..HELP..HELP" into the receiver, then repeat. I get a human within 30 seconds every time.
Richard Feynmann, not only for being one of the most awesome scientists ever, but for his passion and sense of fun, he makes physics look a lot less like a subject for "eggheads".
John von Neumann, because he was a godlike intellect and far more important to the 20th century than your man in the street realises.
Freeman Dyson, because his imagination would appeal to youngsters - stuff like genetically engineering diamond-toothed turtles to eat all the garbage off the US Highway system.
Really, you could blindfold youself and throw a dart into a room full of the most important scientists of the 20th & 21st centuries, and chances are you'd hit someone that no-one without a science background's ever heard of.
I do not condone the throwing of darts and important scientists.
I'm still upset that people get confused when I refer to a googol - they think I'm talking about a search engine, rather than a quantity! For serious, Google are kidding themselves thinking that some strongly worded letters will stop the genericization of google...it's already generic.
I know that isn't the thrust of TFA, but dammit, I missed the original thread.
Seconded. Cinema Craft Encoder is the professional standard. Nero's compression, or that used by dvdshrink etc will drop frames to make your video fit. CCE will re-encode your film to the size you want, with excellent quality. It's not cheap, but there are some er....'unlimited trial' versions around, knowhatimean?
Look, I loved Firefly too, I'm crazy for it, loved Serenity...I also really appreciated silent space battles, etc - the realism was awesome. But it's not science fiction, it's Space Opera - I really don't remember a lot of hard science in Firefly, I remember some 'they tinkered with her brain" talk and an awesome Crazy Ivan, but not a lot of Science. I remember a drama/western set in space.
I live in a share house, in the suburbs of Melbourne, and there's a new housemate every other month. So far, they've included a non-technical german, with a german-language OS, a guy with a windows 98 box and no clue, and so on. It's enough hassle having to get these guys on to an unsecured network, and in the six months that I've been here, nothing that shouldn't be on the network has been. If I want to take that risk rather than be a full-time network admin at home, that's my frigging business.
If you're going to consider limiting users that much, why not simply disable web access or cd players, usb ports etc? I think ultimately, there are several ways to keep a machine safe from intrusion, but it's a compromise for most of us... functionality vs security. If you want to tilt towards security, in-house systems, disabling activex controls, java, admin access etc are all effective to a certain degree, but much like your concept, sound extremely limiting. I mean, secretaries don't need any software other than pre-installed stuff? Right, what happens when said secretary needs to open an emailed document that requires a reader? It osunds extremely inflexible at a time when flexibility can be very important to businesses. If you wanted to be secure, you could also go back to paper & pencil, registered mail, and pay your bills by armed stagecoach.
More specifically, the Liberal Party has never, ever won a majority. Without the coalition with the National Party, we'd have been under Labor for a long, long time now.
To the matter at hand, though...jeez, she actually says "you're going to turkey slap me, aren't you?" giggling as she obeys the summons to 'come over here', it's clearly just a bunch of semi-retarded attention whores having some lowbrow good times. I love that of all the atricities going on, the one that excites our glorious leaders is a prurient tale of frottage amongst consenting fuckwits. Yay priorities!
Can you imagine a graphic design school that didn't own a Mac? As much as it displeases me, schools aren't really in the same position as businesses & individuals when it comes time to evaluate software choices. The reality is that Windows is 'industry standard', as is Office, for the bulk of jobs that students will end up wotrking at. Most students with their own computers also run Windows/Office, and need some interoperability. It's not really as simple as measuring costs, support, productivity.
Which sucks.
Of course this is socialism. In fact you could get the same results with any other form of government autority.
All you have to do is convince the law-makers and/or the voting public that piracy destroys value overall, and thus that blocking all piracy will increase the total wealth of the country.
That's a very good point. Sometimes I need reminding why anarchism appeals so much =D
So there is nothing to argue about "socialism". Their conservative colleagues are as much keen to bow to the SGAE and media companies.
Those who voted for conservative parties would surely expect them to enact laws like this. The point is that Socialist parties shouldn't be siding with the right wing on issues like this. I've never heard of a Socialist doctrine that protects corporate interests from people, that's not really their bag, baby.
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Um, I think the guy realised that when he called the robot WOPR Would you like to play a game?
No DRM,susre, that's great. But these files are hosted by MySpace...I can see my ipod actually melting in my hand while trying to parse all 97 pieces of malicious code tacked on to the file while it sat on their server.
Boy, is my face red. All this time I've been using tails and fur to distinguish between humans and other primates, when DUF1220 was the key.
You make an excellent point that locally cached data would help the traffic situation...my view of an ISP and its priorities is twisted by being Australian. We have a 'last mile' monopoly, as well as an exchange monopoly, a fibre mono...anyway, I get the impression that every last bit that moves along a wire in this country is billed to someone by Telstra.
Wow, the Sony demo looked great, but when Joe Sixpack discovers he needs a $3,000 TV (Plasma, or LCD, by the way?) to take any advantage of his $1500 player (which may or may not still be around in three years, depending on which format wins) which will play a handful of titles, maybe three of which were ever recorded at the resolution he'll be watching at. There's a shock.
This is funny...last month, I downloaded one linux distro via torrent, it was a dvd iso, can't remember the file size, let's say 4.5GB for argument. The other squillion terabytes I grabbed all came from my ISP's own news server, about a zillion hours of not-so-legal content, all provided at full speed by the guys who'd like to throttle my legal torrent traffic? If ISPs were that concerned about traffic, they'd close some of the zombie hosts on their own networks sending out billions of spam emails a day.
Mod me redundant, call me a fanboi, point out that I'm mistaking awesomeness with advancement of the genre - see if I care. Unreal Tournament owned my life for some time, and still periodically pops up to hire it for a few weeks. I'm not really into storylines, plots, or even spatially-oriented goals. I used to get sick to frigging death wandering around an empty level looking for the red card. UT was the first game (that I found) where I could tell it to put x number of bloodthirsty maniacs with y skill level in a room with me and get get our frag on. Best FPS evar.
See, I don't actually live with my mother, I was making a point about using someone else's computer. Feel free to replace my examples with any that help you get it.
So many people are posting the same comment..."every browser can clear this data". Sure. However, if I were to, say, surf pr0n on my mother's PC, I think she might be a little unhappy to find her passwords, auto-completes, history etc wiped so I could hide my shame. This sucker fits on a thumb drive, or is a 1 second download from anywhere. I think mum might prefer me to use this rather than take a magnet to her web-life.
The moment I hear a robot tell me "We've now made it easier for you to ..." I mash the keypad for three seconds, then scream "HELP..HELP..HELP" into the receiver, then repeat. I get a human within 30 seconds every time.
Richard Feynmann, not only for being one of the most awesome scientists ever, but for his passion and sense of fun, he makes physics look a lot less like a subject for "eggheads". John von Neumann, because he was a godlike intellect and far more important to the 20th century than your man in the street realises. Freeman Dyson, because his imagination would appeal to youngsters - stuff like genetically engineering diamond-toothed turtles to eat all the garbage off the US Highway system. Really, you could blindfold youself and throw a dart into a room full of the most important scientists of the 20th & 21st centuries, and chances are you'd hit someone that no-one without a science background's ever heard of. I do not condone the throwing of darts and important scientists.
I'm still upset that people get confused when I refer to a googol - they think I'm talking about a search engine, rather than a quantity! For serious, Google are kidding themselves thinking that some strongly worded letters will stop the genericization of google...it's already generic. I know that isn't the thrust of TFA, but dammit, I missed the original thread.
This is easy....you need to just wait a little while, affordable bluray & hd-dvd burners that can handle your 19GB movie are surely just weeks away!
Seconded. Cinema Craft Encoder is the professional standard. Nero's compression, or that used by dvdshrink etc will drop frames to make your video fit. CCE will re-encode your film to the size you want, with excellent quality. It's not cheap, but there are some er....'unlimited trial' versions around, knowhatimean?
Look, I loved Firefly too, I'm crazy for it, loved Serenity...I also really appreciated silent space battles, etc - the realism was awesome. But it's not science fiction, it's Space Opera - I really don't remember a lot of hard science in Firefly, I remember some 'they tinkered with her brain" talk and an awesome Crazy Ivan, but not a lot of Science. I remember a drama/western set in space.
I live in a share house, in the suburbs of Melbourne, and there's a new housemate every other month. So far, they've included a non-technical german, with a german-language OS, a guy with a windows 98 box and no clue, and so on. It's enough hassle having to get these guys on to an unsecured network, and in the six months that I've been here, nothing that shouldn't be on the network has been. If I want to take that risk rather than be a full-time network admin at home, that's my frigging business.
I'm confused. Is this supposed to be "news for nerds" or "stuff that matters"? Doesn't really seem to fit into either.
If you're going to consider limiting users that much, why not simply disable web access or cd players, usb ports etc? I think ultimately, there are several ways to keep a machine safe from intrusion, but it's a compromise for most of us ... functionality vs security. If you want to tilt towards security, in-house systems, disabling activex controls, java, admin access etc are all effective to a certain degree, but much like your concept, sound extremely limiting. I mean, secretaries don't need any software other than pre-installed stuff? Right, what happens when said secretary needs to open an emailed document that requires a reader? It osunds extremely inflexible at a time when flexibility can be very important to businesses. If you wanted to be secure, you could also go back to paper & pencil, registered mail, and pay your bills by armed stagecoach.
More specifically, the Liberal Party has never, ever won a majority. Without the coalition with the National Party, we'd have been under Labor for a long, long time now. To the matter at hand, though...jeez, she actually says "you're going to turkey slap me, aren't you?" giggling as she obeys the summons to 'come over here', it's clearly just a bunch of semi-retarded attention whores having some lowbrow good times. I love that of all the atricities going on, the one that excites our glorious leaders is a prurient tale of frottage amongst consenting fuckwits. Yay priorities!
Can you imagine a graphic design school that didn't own a Mac? As much as it displeases me, schools aren't really in the same position as businesses & individuals when it comes time to evaluate software choices. The reality is that Windows is 'industry standard', as is Office, for the bulk of jobs that students will end up wotrking at. Most students with their own computers also run Windows/Office, and need some interoperability. It's not really as simple as measuring costs, support, productivity. Which sucks.
Wow, this is Socialism? If I were a Spaniard who'd voted in the current regime, I'd be feeling pretty betrayed right now.