Gotta wonder why they think some laws are dumb though...
"Ministers are forbidden from performing marriages when either the bride or groom is drunk."
Gee, it's a ceremony where two people are making what is supposed to be a lifetime commitment to each other, and you're requiring them to be sober before doing so?
"It is contrary to Pennsylvania law to discharge a gun, cannon, revolver or other explosive weapon at a wedding."
People getting killed by celebratory gunfire probably no longer qualifies as weird for "News of the Weird"...
"Dynamite is not to be used to catch fish."
It's not particularly good for the pond, now is it.
I disagree... I think we're used to seeing the world in a pretty wide aspect ratio..
I looked it up once, and came up with the conclusion that 5:3 was our "natural" aspect ratio. Clearly wider than 4:3, but a little narrower than 16:9 (since 5:3 would be 15:9.)
I think the wider view is more immersive... not necessarily as good as having an IMAX type screen where you can't see the whole screen unless you turn your head, but we can't all afford that:)
How about using a projector like a Dell 2100MP? $1300 list, 800x600 res, make your movie room dark and you can make as big an image as you have a wall for (pref. with a screen on it, of course.) You can even adjust the zoom for best fit of widescreen vs. 4:3, perhaps with black drapes and the like to properly frame the image.
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Why doesn't he just cut through all the crap and patent the very idea of being a complete and utter asshole?
and it's successor (iNBC I think) tried this back in '99 and you see where they are today. Lots of subscibers had web sites for hosting their digital art work.
Note, however, that this explicitly covers only chatrooms and message boardds. If you want to put your digital art/writings on AOL, put it on your web pages, and only provide links and samples in the public areas.
Do you care about how Slashdot might use your posting? I really don't. My messages are only valuable in terms of how they might educate others, and more dispersal should help that.
and, say what you want, but I haven't actually seen much evidence that says a piece of DVD-R media is going to last any longer than a VHS tape.
Perhaps, but when the time comes to copy them into another format, it can be done much more quickly (VHS limits you to real-time) and with no future signal degradation.
I'll try to explain with an example you can test yourself. Some ATM machines have a time delay mechanism when they eject the user's card. If the card sits in the reader too long, it is pulled back in and the account locked until a bank person resets everything.
Ok, this is just too weird a coincidence. An hour ago I noticed an ATM machine beeping, and the person's card still in the machine. It pulled it in, then pushed it out again. (I removed it and took it inside the bank and gave it to a teller.)
Yeah, irrelevant to the discussion, but just weird timing.
Anterior cruciate ligament. One of those bits of the knee that athletes are always tearing.
Seriously, though, it's an Access Control List. The idea is, rather than apps being associated with a user and having all the permissions of said user, you have to give individual apps permissions/restrictions. You could thus give your browser read-only access to your files, for example, or you could prevent an app from accessing the network.
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You make a good point but it's not just DVDs that use compressed video.
Good point, but it would have been nice to have multiple sources for the tests, not just DVDs. It could be that particular codecs are tripped up more by the compression techniques of DVDs vs. DV, etc., so your choice of codec might be influenced by your input source.
It's time that the region system was abandoned by player manufacturers, it's a fucking sales millstone.
Exactly.
In the U.S., DVD owners get just about everything they want, and first, so region coding has little point. (It keeps Aardman from selling me "Cracking Contraptions" directly, but beyond that...) So region coding is pointless in the U.S.
In the rest of the world, region coding is more of an issue, so people flock to the workarounds.
But the problem is the disconnect. DVD player sellers want to get rid of region coding. But DVD disc sellers still have some degree of market control and distributor deals, and so it's an advantage for them with no real disadvantage.
You're right, and the original poster forgets that it ISN'T too convenient to be dishonest with Internet music piracy these days...
So skip the internet. I'm sure high schoolers and college kids have no problems finding a collection of friends with whom they can trade gigs of audio files. A 120 gig external drive is, what, $200?
However, as much as I dislike the RIAA, they do face widespread copyright infringement.
I don't disagree. But at worst, with this service, all the dishonest person has to do to make a distributable copy is use a loopback cable or two machines. Audio simply can't be protected, no matter how much they might wish it so. Their best bet is to make things easy for the honest consumer.
Sounds like you're asking how you can be expected to be honest when it's so damned convenient to be dishonest.
No, you (and the RIAA et al) still miss the point. Let me try to rephrase:
If I'm dishonest enough to use this service and then spread the music all over Kazaaland, then I'm dishonest enough to skip using this service and get the music directly from Kazaa. I'm I'm honest enough to use this service, then I'm honest enough to trust that I won't distribute the music widely.
Does that help?
I want unrestricted files because I don't own a Mac, I just have one in my office. If the files were unrestricted MP3s, then I could buy them from my Mac and use them in various other places where I can play MP3s but not AACs (car MP3/CD players, for example.)
It seems you might enjoy a service that offers songs for $0.25 in a lossless format, with no form of DRM, with a selection of every song ever made and nothing less.
Cluestick here for all and sundry.
If I was the pirating type, I'd get unrestricted songs for $0. Zip, nada, zilch. If I'm going to use this service, it's because I want to buy songs and be honest about it. Given that I have access to the free, better, but dishonest alternative, why the f*** would you put restrictions on how I can use what I buy that are only to prevent me from being dishonest? If I'm going to be dishonest, I'll fire up Kazaa, not buy AACs and copy them hither thither and yon.
If this service sold MP3s or unrestricted media, I'd have bought some already. They don't, so I won't.
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and then if profit, incorporate.
Ya gotta profit first? Damn, I miss the dot com boom.
The number of times feeble attempts to turn 'Tax Cuts' into a bad thing in 'intellectual' circles is staggering.
Oh please.
"Let's all (men, women, and children) borrow $3000 each. Take a little for ourselves, and give the rest to the rich. They buy toys which will improve the economy for the rest of us." That's the Bush economic/tax plan.
I loved where he blamed the $400 billion deficit on the war. The Iraq part supposedly cost $20 billion so far.
You want to impress me. Mr. Bush? Cut spending. Don't just cut taxes on everything except actually working for a living.
A nuclear weapon is technology and I think you caan easily make an arguement that it is an immoral piece of technology.
What if you use some to break up or divert a large asteroid that would otherwise destroy most life on earth? How you use something determines morality/immorality, not what the thing is.
However, it still left the following question unanswered: "What about the hemophiliacs who has not the chance and/or money to be GM and avoid the pain? Will he be stigmatised in a society where genetic modifications will be routinely applied?"
Are they stigmatized now? Why would it be any different than the current situation, where some people have hemophilia, and some don't?
If my kids could get a GM that would let them live fifty years longer, but I was too old for, I wouldn't begrudge their taking it.
However, we must also avoid blind enthusiasm for GM.
On that I agree. My biggest concern isn't fixing illnesses, though, it's "fashion" things that might go "out of style". (Heck, I know of a kid named Lexus...) Reducing susceptability to various illnesses seems like a pure win, but what of the weirdo who gives all his sons 15" schlongs?
Many of you seem to think your systems are the target of every smooth-talking "social engineer" out there--get over yourselves. Nobody is interested in getting access to your porn-ridden home directories.
My system? No. My bank account, 401(k), line of credit? Now that'll generate a lot more interest. And if it was unprotected, well, we've just seen what a lack of security does in Baghdad.
As a not-particularly-well-paid grad student, I once lost a checkbook. (Actually, I know where it was when I lost it; within a half-hour someone in the Student Health dept. saw it and swiped it.) It took months to clear things up, including having companies trying to summon me to court for unpaid checks.
Stallman can take his "no security" position and...
The interesting thing is I haven't heard any follow up on this. Neither confirmation nor retraction. Anyone with follow up on this?
We really don't need one.
If more than 10 days after the discovery, the Bush administration is not shouting about this from the rooftops, it's for one simple reason: it turned out to be a false-positive.
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But question: Why only spool 5 minutes, why not keep an endless loop?
Could 5 minutes be stored in RAM? Less wear and tear on the hard drive if you only use it for actual recordings.
Gotta wonder why they think some laws are dumb though...
"Ministers are forbidden from performing marriages when either the bride or groom is drunk."
Gee, it's a ceremony where two people are making what is supposed to be a lifetime commitment to each other, and you're requiring them to be sober before doing so?
"It is contrary to Pennsylvania law to discharge a gun, cannon, revolver or other explosive weapon at a wedding."
People getting killed by celebratory gunfire probably no longer qualifies as weird for "News of the Weird"...
"Dynamite is not to be used to catch fish."
It's not particularly good for the pond, now is it.
You're close. The steering wheel is an XBox peripheral, so the passenger can play driving games.
But who would want to [archive everything about ourselves]?
I don't know about you, but I wish I had a built-in camera for that babe I saw earlier today...
I disagree... I think we're used to seeing the world in a pretty wide aspect ratio..
:)
I looked it up once, and came up with the conclusion that 5:3 was our "natural" aspect ratio. Clearly wider than 4:3, but a little narrower than 16:9 (since 5:3 would be 15:9.)
I think the wider view is more immersive... not necessarily as good as having an IMAX type screen where you can't see the whole screen unless you turn your head, but we can't all afford that
How about using a projector like a Dell 2100MP? $1300 list, 800x600 res, make your movie room dark and you can make as big an image as you have a wall for (pref. with a screen on it, of course.) You can even adjust the zoom for best fit of widescreen vs. 4:3, perhaps with black drapes and the like to properly frame the image.
Why doesn't he just cut through all the crap and patent the very idea of being a complete and utter asshole?
Way too much prior art...
and it's successor (iNBC I think) tried this back in '99 and you see where they are today. Lots of subscibers had web sites for hosting their digital art work.
Note, however, that this explicitly covers only chatrooms and message boardds. If you want to put your digital art/writings on AOL, put it on your web pages, and only provide links and samples in the public areas.
Do you care about how Slashdot might use your posting? I really don't. My messages are only valuable in terms of how they might educate others, and more dispersal should help that.
What lawsuits? I'm not a Peeping Tom, I'm a patriot!
and, say what you want, but I haven't actually seen much evidence that says a piece of DVD-R media is going to last any longer than a VHS tape.
Perhaps, but when the time comes to copy them into another format, it can be done much more quickly (VHS limits you to real-time) and with no future signal degradation.
I'll try to explain with an example you can test yourself. Some ATM machines have a time delay mechanism when they eject the user's card. If the card sits in the reader too long, it is pulled back in and the account locked until a bank person resets everything.
Ok, this is just too weird a coincidence. An hour ago I noticed an ATM machine beeping, and the person's card still in the machine. It pulled it in, then pushed it out again. (I removed it and took it inside the bank and gave it to a teller.)
Yeah, irrelevant to the discussion, but just weird timing.
What's an ACL?
Anterior cruciate ligament. One of those bits of the knee that athletes are always tearing.
Seriously, though, it's an Access Control List. The idea is, rather than apps being associated with a user and having all the permissions of said user, you have to give individual apps permissions/restrictions. You could thus give your browser read-only access to your files, for example, or you could prevent an app from accessing the network.
You make a good point but it's not just DVDs that use compressed video.
Good point, but it would have been nice to have multiple sources for the tests, not just DVDs. It could be that particular codecs are tripped up more by the compression techniques of DVDs vs. DV, etc., so your choice of codec might be influenced by your input source.
You forget why region codes were introduced in the first place.
Yes, so the media companies could make more profits via selling exclusive distribution deals in different countries.
Otherwise, why would any non-first-run movie ever be region-coded?
It's time that the region system was abandoned by player manufacturers, it's a fucking sales millstone.
Exactly.
In the U.S., DVD owners get just about everything they want, and first, so region coding has little point. (It keeps Aardman from selling me "Cracking Contraptions" directly, but beyond that...) So region coding is pointless in the U.S.
In the rest of the world, region coding is more of an issue, so people flock to the workarounds.
But the problem is the disconnect. DVD player sellers want to get rid of region coding. But DVD disc sellers still have some degree of market control and distributor deals, and so it's an advantage for them with no real disadvantage.
You're right, and the original poster forgets that it ISN'T too convenient to be dishonest with Internet music piracy these days...
So skip the internet. I'm sure high schoolers and college kids have no problems finding a collection of friends with whom they can trade gigs of audio files. A 120 gig external drive is, what, $200?
I wanted to say pleonasm, but I wasn't even sure you could in English.
If Ashcroft and Santorum get their way, you won't be able to...
However, as much as I dislike the RIAA, they do face widespread copyright infringement.
I don't disagree. But at worst, with this service, all the dishonest person has to do to make a distributable copy is use a loopback cable or two machines. Audio simply can't be protected, no matter how much they might wish it so. Their best bet is to make things easy for the honest consumer.
Sounds like you're asking how you can be expected to be honest when it's so damned convenient to be dishonest.
No, you (and the RIAA et al) still miss the point. Let me try to rephrase:
If I'm dishonest enough to use this service and then spread the music all over Kazaaland, then I'm dishonest enough to skip using this service and get the music directly from Kazaa. I'm I'm honest enough to use this service, then I'm honest enough to trust that I won't distribute the music widely.
Does that help?
I want unrestricted files because I don't own a Mac, I just have one in my office. If the files were unrestricted MP3s, then I could buy them from my Mac and use them in various other places where I can play MP3s but not AACs (car MP3/CD players, for example.)
It seems you might enjoy a service that offers songs for $0.25 in a lossless format, with no form of DRM, with a selection of every song ever made and nothing less.
Cluestick here for all and sundry.
If I was the pirating type, I'd get unrestricted songs for $0. Zip, nada, zilch. If I'm going to use this service, it's because I want to buy songs and be honest about it. Given that I have access to the free, better, but dishonest alternative, why the f*** would you put restrictions on how I can use what I buy that are only to prevent me from being dishonest? If I'm going to be dishonest, I'll fire up Kazaa, not buy AACs and copy them hither thither and yon.
If this service sold MP3s or unrestricted media, I'd have bought some already. They don't, so I won't.
and then if profit, incorporate.
Ya gotta profit first? Damn, I miss the dot com boom.
The number of times feeble attempts to turn 'Tax Cuts' into a bad thing in 'intellectual' circles is staggering.
Oh please.
"Let's all (men, women, and children) borrow $3000 each. Take a little for ourselves, and give the rest to the rich. They buy toys which will improve the economy for the rest of us." That's the Bush economic/tax plan.
I loved where he blamed the $400 billion deficit on the war. The Iraq part supposedly cost $20 billion so far.
You want to impress me. Mr. Bush? Cut spending. Don't just cut taxes on everything except actually working for a living.
A nuclear weapon is technology and I think you caan easily make an arguement that it is an immoral piece of technology.
What if you use some to break up or divert a large asteroid that would otherwise destroy most life on earth? How you use something determines morality/immorality, not what the thing is.
However, it still left the following question unanswered: "What about the hemophiliacs who has not the chance and/or money to be GM and avoid the pain? Will he be stigmatised in a society where genetic modifications will be routinely applied?"
Are they stigmatized now? Why would it be any different than the current situation, where some people have hemophilia, and some don't?
If my kids could get a GM that would let them live fifty years longer, but I was too old for, I wouldn't begrudge their taking it.
However, we must also avoid blind enthusiasm for GM.
On that I agree. My biggest concern isn't fixing illnesses, though, it's "fashion" things that might go "out of style". (Heck, I know of a kid named Lexus...) Reducing susceptability to various illnesses seems like a pure win, but what of the weirdo who gives all his sons 15" schlongs?
Many of you seem to think your systems are the target of every smooth-talking "social engineer" out there--get over yourselves. Nobody is interested in getting access to your porn-ridden home directories.
My system? No. My bank account, 401(k), line of credit? Now that'll generate a lot more interest. And if it was unprotected, well, we've just seen what a lack of security does in Baghdad.
As a not-particularly-well-paid grad student, I once lost a checkbook. (Actually, I know where it was when I lost it; within a half-hour someone in the Student Health dept. saw it and swiped it.) It took months to clear things up, including having companies trying to summon me to court for unpaid checks.
Stallman can take his "no security" position and...
The interesting thing is I haven't heard any follow up on this. Neither confirmation nor retraction. Anyone with follow up on this?
We really don't need one.
If more than 10 days after the discovery, the Bush administration is not shouting about this from the rooftops, it's for one simple reason: it turned out to be a false-positive.