Takedown notices have already been sent over many items already. Games Workshop did most recently, and a while back I recall there was some hubbub about an optical illusion object.
You can't think like a normal person, or even a creative person who actually produced the content. You have to think like a content OWNER. In Ownermath, one copy, even a poor one by someone who would never have gone out and purchased the original anyway, represents not only lost profits, but increased costs.
And, well, you might not want to use anything like that right now. What about the time when everything requires it?
So the OP should give up his principles (no contribution to the bad ways via my purchase!) for a little convenience?
Not at all.
But a boycott to protest industry actions doesn't solve anything because the industry colludes with itself. It just leaves you without.
The optimal answer is to pressure lawmakers into protecting your rights, that "protected content paths" denies fair use, that hardware ownership really should mean the whole system, not parts of it excluding encryption. The counter to this is that the politicians are already in industry's pocket.
We could always go back to telling stories by fireside. That might not be such a bad thing.
lack of hdcp support sounds GREAT to me. no license fee, no contribution to the bad ways via my purchase! no supporting a bad regime (hdcp) with my dollars.
I watch using a pc and I never care about 'protected path' content. my dvd's are ripped and saved on a nas, drm-free. I could give a shit about hdcp!
sign me up!
Until you want to use it as an output on something that requires a protected path. Ripped and encoded DVDs, obviously, don't require it.
And, well, you might not want to use anything like that right now. What about the time when everything requires it?
The future of consuming media is bleak indeed. But, that might actually be a good thing for society, judging by the current state of popular media.
It's not clear how this even an infection vector for windows computers. How does the payload get executed on a windows machine?
Maybe that's phase 2.
Either way, I don't know why iOS applications are allowed to distribute windows executable files. While iOS malware is definitely Apple's fault when it happens, I guess you can't really argue that Windows malware is a problem if nothing tries to execute them, and execute them as Administrator after all.
More worrying is what ELSE is lurking in these packages that isn't inspected? What if someone is sneaking child porn in the.ipa that isn't accessed by the app proper? Kind of like how they [used to?] sell tiny plastic roses in little glass vials but the true intention is selling the glass vial as a crack pipe. There could be publishers selling stupid apps that those in-the-know are aware of the true contents.
The next new thing I think is going to be MMO inspired movies. Blizzard, for example, is in a great position with World of Warcraft, they have tons of content already written, and I'm sure fans would pay gobs of cash to see an epic character's take on a world they already know, and with appropriate special effects and drama only approximated by the capabilities of the game. The difference between that and a comic book movie, where the source material has also been previously written in a world people are already familiar with, is minimal. They just might be video game movies that don't immediately suck, so long as they stay reasonably true to the source material, which is why many comic book movies do well. They differ just enough to allow the production crew to imprint their take on it, and they're familiar enough to ring home with audiences.
If you think it's ridiculous, consider going back in time and telling yourself 20 years ago that the movies would be absolutely dominated by remakes and reboots and comic book movies, and imagine your double's response.
Why would you curse your children by indoctrinating them into the Microsoft ecosystem?
It sucks, it's a minority technology (i.e. the various Java platforms are the dominant business technology) and Microsoft is on the way out.
TFS:
He taught himself C#
Perhaps a better parent would discourage such efforts. If he doesn't study The True Language, he's a blasphemer and the books he's been reading should be burned.
Holy wars aside, learning OOP goes beyond the syntactical sugar of the actual language.
Really, though, any given day, the largest number of people enter their childbearing years than ever in history, and that number is always greater than those leaving childbearing years.
Calling it a "generation" is a bit silly, but it's certainly a less wordy way of saying it that still sends the message.
Oh bullshit; we all know you didn't order a Nexus 7, you fucking Apple fanboi. And even if you had, you're lying about preordering it on the announcement date because ALL OF THOSE ORDERS HAVE SHIPPED, and I find it exceedingly unlikely that one of the very few orders that maybe didn't ship for some reason just happened to be slated to an Apple lover like yourself.
AND, even if you *weren't* obviously full of shit, here's the deal: Google/Asus try to gauge demand for launch. If they misjudge it and don't have enough hardware on-hand to satisfy initial orders... well, them's the breaks. That's just how it works for popular devices -- especially ones where the manufacturer doesn't really have any historical precedent to go on for sales numbers. You'll get your device, and your life won't end because you have to wait a little longer to get it.
Take your pathetic attempt at anti-shilling elsewhere.
Oh noes! Anonymous Coward doesn't believe me! Whatever will I do?
They haven't even charged me, so I guess it's no skin off my back. It's just funny to hear people adhering to a public business statement by Google that, in my case, simply isn't true.
I've never pre-ordered anything from Apple, so I have no opinion on how they do things. I know back in the iPod days they'd announce a product and they'd say "it's available in stores now, go buy buy buy, victims of my reality distortion field!" Gotta say if it wasn't for "customer service" telling me they can't cancel because it's shipping "today" -- what they told me for the last three times I called -- I'd have walked into Staples and just picked one up. I'm just trying to avoid getting stuck with one more tablet than I actually want.
The Wife Acceptance Factor. £150 (ish) is an easier sell than £200 for a geek toy.
You actually have to ask permission from your wife/girlfriend/live in woman before making a small purchase like this??
I mean, I can understand if you're married and buying a house or maybe a $$$ car...but asking permission to buy a computer or tablet....wow.
Grow a pair man....
Girl creature comforts can easily exceed several hundred dollars for fashionable matching outfits. It's not about growing/not growing a pair, it's having the maturity to consult your partner when spending pooled money on things that aren't necessities. Hell, even if wife/girlfriend/live in woman was into gadgets, I sure would want to know to expect a $250 hole in the fun-funds account -- for what amounts to basically a toy -- before it happens.
Apparently you have been asleep for a few decades. This is the beauty of a self serving do nothing congress!
FTFY
Nah, they've been doing plenty. Increasing funding for the TSA, taking our rights away via a strengthened Patriot Act, and introducing bills like SOPA.
There really should be local smart caching on all portable devices. When they have access to an internet network, it should get stuff you're likely to want to see. Say you're watching episodes of Breaking Bad, it should fetch the next couple of them, and a few of the first episodes of similar quality show. Basically, use your media preferences to evaluate what you're likely to want to consume next. This portable Tivo.
Then when you're offline, you can consume from your cache. When it finds network access again, it should clean up. Think iTunes without explicit synching and always in a state of evaluating your habits and deciding what you'd like next.
I had a 160GB 605. Thing died after 3 months. They sent a new one, and that one died to the day 12 months later.
My experience was pretty lousy, they only "kinda support" all their features. So, it only "kinda supported" video formats, it only "kinda supported" audio formats, it only "kinda supported" flash. Anything half a step outside it's comfort zone and all of a sudden it couldn't play this codec or deal with files with more than one subtitle stream or even remember my wifi password.
If it's an Android tablet, it's looking a bit better, but another fun feature is that the 605 ran Linux that they Tivo-ized and locked out the user from pretty much everything. Definitely not one of my greatest gadget buys and I would never consider Archos again for anything.
Not that screwed. I preordered launch day in the US and still haven't been shipped it, although it was promised to ship overnight by the end of day July 19th.
Typical Google, great when their systems decide to work, but when it doesn't there is no effort to fix. Customer "service" is downright Kafkaesque.
I was on the pre-order list and my 16GB would not charge. They still haven't sent a replacement. I guess I am screwed.
I guess the upside is that they may fix the screen issue... but since Asus has managed to show a lack of competence with some of these issues I am not holding my breath.
I guess the someone worse off than me turned out to be you. I had an announce date preorder that still hasn't shipped, and Google customer service is a joke, but at least I didn't get shipped a dud.
For it to be entrapment, the police have to initiate the wrongdoing - e.g., if an undercover cop asks you out of the blue if you'd like to buy drugs, that's entrapment.
I think that's close but then there are these types of stings which are (arguably) legal. An undercover cop asks you out of the blue if you want "a good time" or to pay for sex. It's out-of-the-blue because you were just driving by.
Johns that pick up streetwalkers don't just drive by. They stop and allow the prostitute to approach. The stopping action represents their initiation of the crime.
The key difference is that UEFI is enforced by hardware, not just software. While I doubt it will be uncrackable it is going to be significantly harder and the hacks against it may require physical intervention (not just software changes) which will stop may users replicating the crack.
Hardware protection sure was successful for, well, all consoles since the NES.
I never asked a question and my statement wasn't flawed. A 360 is equivalent to worse than a 7 year old PC in performance but can still play a graphically intense game from this year. Just becuase the 'rah rah PC' people dislike that reality doesn't make my statement flawed.
Irrelevant at this stage. What we need first is better support for plastic. I want a hopper that re-extrudes spent ABS into fresh filament.
Filabot.com is your bag, then. Right now it's only making filament from granules, though. Even with a grinder, they're going to have to deal with needing the re-addition of volatile chemicals that are currently lost during printing.
As far as plastics, there is loads of work being done. PLA (biodegradeable polymer), PVA (water soluble), Polycarbonate, even Nylon are successfully being extruded and printed.
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I don't eat anything fried so I can't vouch for it, but give this recipe a spin.
Please tell me your humor sensor is at the shop.
What sort of brain structure causes this mental vomit to occur?
An overgrowth of the part of the brain that fears.
Takedown notices have already been sent over many items already. Games Workshop did most recently, and a while back I recall there was some hubbub about an optical illusion object.
You can't think like a normal person, or even a creative person who actually produced the content. You have to think like a content OWNER. In Ownermath, one copy, even a poor one by someone who would never have gone out and purchased the original anyway, represents not only lost profits, but increased costs.
Which constitutes only 1.37% of the population...
Beware the tyranny of the minority.
What is it that the NRA wants to ban in law, exactly? It's not tyranny of the minority if they're not forcing anyone to do anything.
And, well, you might not want to use anything like that right now. What about the time when everything requires it?
So the OP should give up his principles (no contribution to the bad ways via my purchase!) for a little convenience?
Not at all.
But a boycott to protest industry actions doesn't solve anything because the industry colludes with itself. It just leaves you without.
The optimal answer is to pressure lawmakers into protecting your rights, that "protected content paths" denies fair use, that hardware ownership really should mean the whole system, not parts of it excluding encryption. The counter to this is that the politicians are already in industry's pocket.
We could always go back to telling stories by fireside. That might not be such a bad thing.
lack of hdcp support sounds GREAT to me. no license fee, no contribution to the bad ways via my purchase! no supporting a bad regime (hdcp) with my dollars.
I watch using a pc and I never care about 'protected path' content. my dvd's are ripped and saved on a nas, drm-free. I could give a shit about hdcp!
sign me up!
Until you want to use it as an output on something that requires a protected path. Ripped and encoded DVDs, obviously, don't require it.
And, well, you might not want to use anything like that right now. What about the time when everything requires it?
The future of consuming media is bleak indeed. But, that might actually be a good thing for society, judging by the current state of popular media.
It's not clear how this even an infection vector for windows computers. How does the payload get executed on a windows machine?
Maybe that's phase 2.
Either way, I don't know why iOS applications are allowed to distribute windows executable files. While iOS malware is definitely Apple's fault when it happens, I guess you can't really argue that Windows malware is a problem if nothing tries to execute them, and execute them as Administrator after all.
More worrying is what ELSE is lurking in these packages that isn't inspected? What if someone is sneaking child porn in the .ipa that isn't accessed by the app proper? Kind of like how they [used to?] sell tiny plastic roses in little glass vials but the true intention is selling the glass vial as a crack pipe. There could be publishers selling stupid apps that those in-the-know are aware of the true contents.
Precisely, and we all know that aside from the 1989 Batman movie, the others didn't nearly make enough cash to be worthwhile.
The next new thing I think is going to be MMO inspired movies. Blizzard, for example, is in a great position with World of Warcraft, they have tons of content already written, and I'm sure fans would pay gobs of cash to see an epic character's take on a world they already know, and with appropriate special effects and drama only approximated by the capabilities of the game. The difference between that and a comic book movie, where the source material has also been previously written in a world people are already familiar with, is minimal. They just might be video game movies that don't immediately suck, so long as they stay reasonably true to the source material, which is why many comic book movies do well. They differ just enough to allow the production crew to imprint their take on it, and they're familiar enough to ring home with audiences.
If you think it's ridiculous, consider going back in time and telling yourself 20 years ago that the movies would be absolutely dominated by remakes and reboots and comic book movies, and imagine your double's response.
Why would you curse your children by indoctrinating them into the Microsoft ecosystem?
It sucks, it's a minority technology (i.e. the various Java platforms are the dominant business technology) and Microsoft is on the way out.
TFS:
He taught himself C#
Perhaps a better parent would discourage such efforts. If he doesn't study The True Language, he's a blasphemer and the books he's been reading should be burned.
Holy wars aside, learning OOP goes beyond the syntactical sugar of the actual language.
Really, though, any given day, the largest number of people enter their childbearing years than ever in history, and that number is always greater than those leaving childbearing years.
Calling it a "generation" is a bit silly, but it's certainly a less wordy way of saying it that still sends the message.
Oh bullshit; we all know you didn't order a Nexus 7, you fucking Apple fanboi. And even if you had, you're lying about preordering it on the announcement date because ALL OF THOSE ORDERS HAVE SHIPPED, and I find it exceedingly unlikely that one of the very few orders that maybe didn't ship for some reason just happened to be slated to an Apple lover like yourself.
AND, even if you *weren't* obviously full of shit, here's the deal: Google/Asus try to gauge demand for launch. If they misjudge it and don't have enough hardware on-hand to satisfy initial orders ... well, them's the breaks. That's just how it works for popular devices -- especially ones where the manufacturer doesn't really have any historical precedent to go on for sales numbers. You'll get your device, and your life won't end because you have to wait a little longer to get it.
Take your pathetic attempt at anti-shilling elsewhere.
Oh noes! Anonymous Coward doesn't believe me! Whatever will I do?
They haven't even charged me, so I guess it's no skin off my back. It's just funny to hear people adhering to a public business statement by Google that, in my case, simply isn't true.
I've never pre-ordered anything from Apple, so I have no opinion on how they do things. I know back in the iPod days they'd announce a product and they'd say "it's available in stores now, go buy buy buy, victims of my reality distortion field!" Gotta say if it wasn't for "customer service" telling me they can't cancel because it's shipping "today" -- what they told me for the last three times I called -- I'd have walked into Staples and just picked one up. I'm just trying to avoid getting stuck with one more tablet than I actually want.
You actually have to ask permission from your wife/girlfriend/live in woman before making a small purchase like this??
I mean, I can understand if you're married and buying a house or maybe a $$$ car...but asking permission to buy a computer or tablet....wow.
Grow a pair man....
Girl creature comforts can easily exceed several hundred dollars for fashionable matching outfits. It's not about growing/not growing a pair, it's having the maturity to consult your partner when spending pooled money on things that aren't necessities.
Hell, even if wife/girlfriend/live in woman was into gadgets, I sure would want to know to expect a $250 hole in the fun-funds account -- for what amounts to basically a toy -- before it happens.
In Washington, the Ministry of Truth says that we just need four more years of Hope and Change...
While their opponents say we need a fresh, new, hip war that will stimulate the economy and create jobs both at home and abroad!
Technically, like WW2, if enough of the industrialized world has it's industry destroyed while the US' is untouched, we'd be back on top, baby.
Apparently you have been asleep for a few decades. This is the beauty of a self serving do nothing congress!
FTFY
Nah, they've been doing plenty. Increasing funding for the TSA, taking our rights away via a strengthened Patriot Act, and introducing bills like SOPA.
There really should be local smart caching on all portable devices. When they have access to an internet network, it should get stuff you're likely to want to see. Say you're watching episodes of Breaking Bad, it should fetch the next couple of them, and a few of the first episodes of similar quality show. Basically, use your media preferences to evaluate what you're likely to want to consume next. This portable Tivo.
Then when you're offline, you can consume from your cache. When it finds network access again, it should clean up. Think iTunes without explicit synching and always in a state of evaluating your habits and deciding what you'd like next.
I'm baffled why this doesn't exist yet*.
*eh, probably patents
Archos stuff is crap, plain and simple.
I had a 160GB 605. Thing died after 3 months. They sent a new one, and that one died to the day 12 months later.
My experience was pretty lousy, they only "kinda support" all their features. So, it only "kinda supported" video formats, it only "kinda supported" audio formats, it only "kinda supported" flash. Anything half a step outside it's comfort zone and all of a sudden it couldn't play this codec or deal with files with more than one subtitle stream or even remember my wifi password.
If it's an Android tablet, it's looking a bit better, but another fun feature is that the 605 ran Linux that they Tivo-ized and locked out the user from pretty much everything. Definitely not one of my greatest gadget buys and I would never consider Archos again for anything.
Not that screwed. I preordered launch day in the US and still haven't been shipped it, although it was promised to ship overnight by the end of day July 19th.
Typical Google, great when their systems decide to work, but when it doesn't there is no effort to fix. Customer "service" is downright Kafkaesque.
I was on the pre-order list and my 16GB would not charge. They still haven't sent a replacement. I guess I am screwed.
I guess the upside is that they may fix the screen issue... but since Asus has managed to show a lack of competence with some of these issues I am not holding my breath.
I guess the someone worse off than me turned out to be you. I had an announce date preorder that still hasn't shipped, and Google customer service is a joke, but at least I didn't get shipped a dud.
Sorry for your misfortune. :(
For it to be entrapment, the police have to initiate the wrongdoing - e.g., if an undercover cop asks you out of the blue if you'd like to buy drugs, that's entrapment.
I think that's close but then there are these types of stings which are (arguably) legal. An undercover cop asks you out of the blue if you want "a good time" or to pay for sex. It's out-of-the-blue because you were just driving by.
Johns that pick up streetwalkers don't just drive by. They stop and allow the prostitute to approach. The stopping action represents their initiation of the crime.
The key difference is that UEFI is enforced by hardware, not just software. While I doubt it will be uncrackable it is going to be significantly harder and the hacks against it may require physical intervention (not just software changes) which will stop may users replicating the crack.
Hardware protection sure was successful for, well, all consoles since the NES.
I never asked a question and my statement wasn't flawed. A 360 is equivalent to worse than a 7 year old PC in performance but can still play a graphically intense game from this year. Just becuase the 'rah rah PC' people dislike that reality doesn't make my statement flawed.
For various values of "intense"
Why yes I would like an unfolding phone, just make sure it doesn't fold up like a road map because I could never get those folds correct.
Irrelevant at this stage. What we need first is better support for plastic. I want a hopper that re-extrudes spent ABS into fresh filament.
Filabot.com is your bag, then. Right now it's only making filament from granules, though. Even with a grinder, they're going to have to deal with needing the re-addition of volatile chemicals that are currently lost during printing.
As far as plastics, there is loads of work being done. PLA (biodegradeable polymer), PVA (water soluble), Polycarbonate, even Nylon are successfully being extruded and printed.