Actually, everyone who's ever played a game from the 'Hitman' series, knows that shooting a target in the face isn't very practical. Knife or piano wire from behind is much less messy, and less likely to bring any bodyguard to your victims aid...
It's being sold as an audio CD. You have a reasonable expectation that it will work in your audio CD player(s). If it doesn't, then as far as I'm concerned either the CD or the player(s) is faulty. Assuming your player(s) work(s) with other CDs, the implication would be that it's the CD that's faulty. Therefore, you're entitled to a refund, end of story.
Actually, right from the beginning, Philips has made a stand that these copy protected CD's are never sold with the 'CD-Compact Disc' label on it, since they do not comply with the Red Book standard Sony and Philips published back in 1982.
So if you're shopping for a CD and the logo is not on it, it's a good signal to read a the small print. In my experience, you'll often find copyright notices for the copyprotection on there somewhere.:-P
However, it seems to me that right from the beginning this stuff has gone the wrong way. Hackers and pirates are way more inventive that 'regular' consumers, so any copy protection will be cracked (after all, if it was IMPOSSIBLE to get the audio off there, it would never sell), while Joe Average will never get it to play on his car stereo.
I rip all my CD's to my harddisk, since I like variation, and a big harddrive with WinAmp is a much better CD-changer than a real CD-changer ever will be. I have over time bought several DRM'ed CD's, and none of them have EVER given me much trouble ripping them. Most work was one that required the 'black marker on the outer ring' trick.
I wonder what will be the definition of `the better known capable companies', and what will set them apart from `individuals'. I bet the term `Campaign-sponsor' will be involved somewhere...
> You left out Knoppix and Gentoo from your must have super buzz distro list.
I knew I was forgetting something!!
Knoppix is actually one of the distros I DO regulary use. When some WinXP system has crashed again and people have been saving data on their system drive so they don't want to do proper reinstall...
As for different Windows versions, I agree it's a bit the same, but that's talking about different versions, I've seldom heard people shout at each other on which Linux Kernel to use:-P
It's true though, I'm a sucker for Win2k:-)
And VI is better than EMACS!
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Problem I see with google, is the way they're slowly creeping into everything.
They've pretty much killed off all competition in the search engine business. Sites I used when I started using the web, like Altavista and AllTheWeb are now even copying Googles layout!
In Holland the verb 'to Google' has actually been added to the dictionary, I believe.
This isn't necessarily a bad thing, since Google is/was simply the best. It does mean however that pretty much all Internet searching is done through Google, which gives it the same possibilities for abuse as MicroSoft had a while back in the desktop PC market.
Already the amount of ads on a Google page is increasing by the day, as is the amount of sites that use those Google text-ad. (any more people out there who have pagead2.googlesyndication.com blocked?).
One of Google's CEO's has been heard to say:
`We are moving to a Google that knows more about you.'
And of course we've all heard of the 40-year cookies and what not.
I'm not exceptionally paranoid, but put it all together and something in my head says `1984'...
To those who want to be on the safe side, I heartily recommend Scroogle.
Cheers.
I still think it's funny how there's a new `Holy War' between Linux distros every few months.
`Back in the day' when I had my first experience with Linux, you had the Red Hat Camp vs the SuSe Camp. (Real hackers used Slackware then, btw).
Then Red hat became the evil empire, people started yelling `Debian' at each other, while SuSe became something you didn't talk about.
Around then Mandrake finally made a proper installer (albeit a very limited one if you knew what you wanted) and raked in Windows users by the dozen.
Then that position was attacked by Lindows(C), which was so effective it got in trouble with Redmond itself.
In the meantime, Red Hat looked out of the Windows (pun inteded) and started to make some money. So they started Fedora to keep the free code coming (and stay somewhat compliant to the GNU GPL). And Debian went out of the picture again.
Now I'm hearing Ubuntu on all sides (still sounds like an African dictator to me, but whatever), while my work PC suddenly runs CentOS (where did that one come from?).
UserLinux? Never heard of it either, so must have been a pretty weak spotlight in the first place...
Wonder what the next `Must-have-distro' will be.
I'll make the switch when they stick to one for more than a year, until then, I'll use Windows and BSD.
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Actually, everyone who's ever played a game from the 'Hitman' series, knows that shooting a target in the face isn't very practical. Knife or piano wire from behind is much less messy, and less likely to bring any bodyguard to your victims aid...
It's being sold as an audio CD. You have a reasonable expectation that it will work in your audio CD player(s). If it doesn't, then as far as I'm concerned either the CD or the player(s) is faulty. Assuming your player(s) work(s) with other CDs, the implication would be that it's the CD that's faulty. Therefore, you're entitled to a refund, end of story.
:-P
Actually, right from the beginning, Philips has made a stand that these copy protected CD's are never sold with the 'CD-Compact Disc' label on it, since they do not comply with the Red Book standard Sony and Philips published back in 1982.
So if you're shopping for a CD and the logo is not on it, it's a good signal to read a the small print. In my experience, you'll often find copyright notices for the copyprotection on there somewhere.
However, it seems to me that right from the beginning this stuff has gone the wrong way. Hackers and pirates are way more inventive that 'regular' consumers, so any copy protection will be cracked (after all, if it was IMPOSSIBLE to get the audio off there, it would never sell), while Joe Average will never get it to play on his car stereo.
I rip all my CD's to my harddisk, since I like variation, and a big harddrive with WinAmp is a much better CD-changer than a real CD-changer ever will be. I have over time bought several DRM'ed CD's, and none of them have EVER given me much trouble ripping them. Most work was one that required the 'black marker on the outer ring' trick.
My two cents...
I wonder what will be the definition of `the better known capable companies', and what will set them apart from `individuals'. I bet the term `Campaign-sponsor' will be involved somewhere...
> I've always hated RealPlayer, but on the Mac their product is seriously nice. Most of all, what else would you use to play real-streams on the web?
For a stored stream, I use Net Transport to download it, and then the Real Alternative codec to play it in my media player of choice.
As for radio streams: Doesn't WinAmp play those?
> i'd just like to point out, the large black lettered quote saying, "I don't feel Linux is the right fit for the enterprise," is a MISQUOTE.
:-D
Actually, I know that many Navy ships use Solaris, don't know for sure about the Enterprise though...
> You left out Knoppix and Gentoo from your must have super buzz distro list.
:-P :-)
I knew I was forgetting something!!
Knoppix is actually one of the distros I DO regulary use. When some WinXP system has crashed again and people have been saving data on their system drive so they don't want to do proper reinstall...
As for different Windows versions, I agree it's a bit the same, but that's talking about different versions, I've seldom heard people shout at each other on which Linux Kernel to use
It's true though, I'm a sucker for Win2k
And VI is better than EMACS!
They've pretty much killed off all competition in the search engine business. Sites I used when I started using the web, like Altavista and AllTheWeb are now even copying Googles layout!
In Holland the verb 'to Google' has actually been added to the dictionary, I believe.
This isn't necessarily a bad thing, since Google is/was simply the best. It does mean however that pretty much all Internet searching is done through Google, which gives it the same possibilities for abuse as MicroSoft had a while back in the desktop PC market.
Already the amount of ads on a Google page is increasing by the day, as is the amount of sites that use those Google text-ad. (any more people out there who have pagead2.googlesyndication.com blocked?).
One of Google's CEO's has been heard to say: And of course we've all heard of the 40-year cookies and what not.
I'm not exceptionally paranoid, but put it all together and something in my head says `1984'... To those who want to be on the safe side, I heartily recommend Scroogle. Cheers.
I still think it's funny how there's a new `Holy War' between Linux distros every few months.
`Back in the day' when I had my first experience with Linux, you had the Red Hat Camp vs the SuSe Camp. (Real hackers used Slackware then, btw).
Then Red hat became the evil empire, people started yelling `Debian' at each other, while SuSe became something you didn't talk about.
Around then Mandrake finally made a proper installer (albeit a very limited one if you knew what you wanted) and raked in Windows users by the dozen.
Then that position was attacked by Lindows(C), which was so effective it got in trouble with Redmond itself.
In the meantime, Red Hat looked out of the Windows (pun inteded) and started to make some money. So they started Fedora to keep the free code coming (and stay somewhat compliant to the GNU GPL). And Debian went out of the picture again.
Now I'm hearing Ubuntu on all sides (still sounds like an African dictator to me, but whatever), while my work PC suddenly runs CentOS (where did that one come from?).
UserLinux? Never heard of it either, so must have been a pretty weak spotlight in the first place...
Wonder what the next `Must-have-distro' will be.
I'll make the switch when they stick to one for more than a year, until then, I'll use Windows and BSD.
Just my $0.02...
Hehe, I seriously hope there are still jobs in Computer Science and Computer Engineering. Otherwise I've chosen the wrong Major :-)