Bang bang he shot me down.

Well, France has had it's ups and downs with content providers.

For example, a French appeals court "ruled that movie companies must remove the copy protection from DVDs, and castigated them for inadequately labeling copy-protected movies." For a brief moment, the consumer cheered.

Alas, the ruling has not stuck, and consumers in France are hit with a ruling that states "consumers are not entitled to make personal copies of DVDs, even if they do not distribute them." Content providers are cheering, of course.

Hopefully for the French, the ruling doesn't stick. All those nifty new portable media players will suddenly become useless. Microsoft and their quest to make the computer the center of a living room will suddenly fail. Oh, and the ruling could be used by the music industry to destroy MP3 players.

Alas.

Read about France's anti-DRM stance here and see the most recent ruling here.

Don't die.

I like scary dreams, as long as calculus isn't involved.

Will the woes of the PS3 herald the age of MS dominance in the gaming market?

Today, according to this article, Sony is admitting to the possibility of pushing back the PS3 release to 2007. There are also rumours the Playstation 3 will cost 800+ dollars. Yep. That's a large chunk of money (my computer cost only a little more than that). Sticker shock is going to hurt Sony, expecially since Nintendo is claiming that their console will debut for less than $200. We should aslo expect MS to drop the price of the XBox 360 just before the PS3 hits the market.

The XBox 360 is looking more and more like the next top dog (of course, Nintendo could suprise me and release something worth owning). Sony's quest to produce the best hardware will probably end up hurting them. The GameCube should have taught the industry a lesson - superior hardware does not garner more of the market.

Don't die.

Speed limit signs are only recommendations.

Listen here ya lazy buggers, according to this here article at the LiveScience webpage, happiness is normally held back by an overdose of lethargy.

So, stop taking path of least resistance. Throw the television out the window and go out and do something!