Comments on: Buffy the Vampire Slayer – LOL Cats

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:55:53 +0000

Adam: LOL. You’re just waiting for me to post {crappy show you liked} LOL Cats. A-Team LOL Cats perhaps?

By: The Ryan with the Cupcake

The Ryan with the Cupcake — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:55:04 +0000

My window. It doesn't help that San Diego doesn't know how to weatherize.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:50:07 +0000

Dear Craig,

Maybe LOL does not mean what you think it means.

Warmest Regards,
Someone who hates {insert name of crappy show here} LOL Cats

By: john

john — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:58:16 +0000

Paul: Escape key = LOL!

Tam: X as cut makes sense, C as copy makes sense. V as paste/insert I think it is because it is in line with C and X and it is like the short hand symbol for inserting that teachers used when we were in grade school. Just a thought.

M.Nico: Dvorak keyboard = Nerd FTW!

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:28:28 +0000

Ryan, yeah, I can’t swear that the story I repeated above is actually true; I don’t have Vista and I don’t even have an HD camcorder.

I’m a huge un-fan of DRM and of so-called “intellectual property rights” in the first place. As far as I’m concerned, copyright is an entitlement, not a property right; it’s there to serve a public good, and unfortunately it’s been taken to a point where it is no longer serving a public good but in many ways decidedly thwarting it and stifling creativity.

Don’t get me wrong: I believe strongly in paying for music, movies, software, etc., and I do — I don’t have the least desire to circumvent DRM in order to be able to “steal” content.

By: The Ryan with the Cupcake

The Ryan with the Cupcake — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:19:38 +0000

Justin: My understanding was that Vista would downgrade DRM HD if your cable/monitor wasn’t DRM compliant. This prevented people from recording DRM HD in real time (which I understand would require something like a RAID array of 20 hard drives to write that fast).

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:13:53 +0000

Ugh. Windows 7 DRM is even worse than Vista’s

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:11:11 +0000

I know there are ways around DRM. But what Microsoft did was even worse: they bullied the hardware manufacturers to build DRM protection into their drivers such that, for instance, you couldn’t play your own home movies from your own HD camcorder in High Def on your computer, because drivers are required to downscale from HD to SD if the stream DOESN’T have DRM on it. Or at least that’s what I’ve read; I’ve never tried it myself.

I have been seriously considering switching to Linux for my next OS… As for my work-owned laptop, I doubt IBM will *ever* switch to Vista or Windows 7. For now we are all still on XP (Vista/Windows 7 are not supported by IBM’s IT department, though obviously some people have to run those OS’s for testing purposes, but nobody gets to run it as their primary workstation OS). If Microsoft ever decides to EOL XP support, I wouldn’t be surprised if we all got switched to Linux. We’ve already been required to remove Microsoft Office from our work computers.

By: M. Nicodemus

M. Nicodemus — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:31:44 +0000

Justin: and there are ways around DRM, as long as you don’t mind breaking a rule or two.

By: M. Nicodemus

M. Nicodemus — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:30:00 +0000

Justin: I skipped over Vista, mainly because there was no real good reason to leave XP. The "added value" of Vista was minimal and, as you said, made some things more difficult to do because MS knows better than you what you want to do. However, I am more optimistic about Win 7, especially after learning about God Mode.