Whats next? Some sort of physical DRM for printed copies?
If you dig back into storage and find some of those early 1st edition dungeon crawls, you'll find that they were printed in a lightish blue ink.
Mimeograph machines and black and white copiers at the time (I don't think color copiers were commercially available yet) had real trouble with that color ink.
This was intentional. It was, in effect, DRM.
There is no possible way anyone who had not read the source material had any idea what was going on.
Absolutely, 100%, dead on wrong.
My wife only knew what Watchmen was about from the one minute summary I gave her, and the trailers.
She absolutely loved it. She was quite surprised by the amount of sex, and had expected a fair amount more violence given the director. She described her experience watching the movie as nearly the fastest three hours she can remember.
It was refreshing to see a movie with some actual pace to it, not full-bore the entire time.
And that wouldn't have happened with a racist judge just as easily as it happened with a racist jury? I'd still rather have the jury, if for no other reason than the fact that it's (hopefully) harder to wind up with 12 racists sitting on a jury than one racist sitting on the bench......
You haven't been through the jury selection process, have you?
In rare cases, I buy both. I have very limited time to read actual books, but I have a lot of time to _listen_ to books. And I'm not a long-haul trucker. Just a guy that spends ~1-1.5 hours/day in a car with a direct iPod hookup.
So, I subscribe to Audible (ignoring rants about DRM - I know) for most "reading" and on rare occasions buy the hardcopy for things I want long-term.
One of the great things about Linux is that you hardly ever have to boot at all... My home server has gone months at a time without any rebooting. Shaving 5 seconds off boot (as it seems would happen moving from 8.10 to 9.04 on a Core 2 Duo system) will save me around 5 seconds/month. That's one extra slashdot summary.
Now, an unstable O/S like Windows, then boot time matters. You might be saving a few minutes a day with those kinds of numbers. There's a serious productivity gain.
...never really turns out well in the end.
You know, clicking the link you provided is the first time I've been to the Zune.net site.
Who the hell designed that? For more than a few seconds, I thought I was on one of those parked domain link sites.
Yech.
Particularly since the links on the site go to Powell's.
Powell's is freaking cool. And independent, if you care about such things. (And, for that matter, even if you don't.
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it." - Bert Lantz
