I'd love if we could throw out the whole internet and use IPv6 instead. I'd love if we could throw out a lot of legacy technologies, like x86 and C and ASCII and gas engines. But doing this requires a lot of changes to infrastructure!
NAT is great because it's an endpoint-based solution. Stuff like uPNP can be deployed at a single site to make NAT better, and we don't have to touch a single router. (Network guys should read their own influential papers!)
Yeah, but those 100 IP addresses can be behind a household NAT and share a single IP address. With the way people use the internet today, I'm not sure the crisis is so serious...
>/me is still shocked at the thought that some people call Quake 3 a game... Nice engine though
Yeah, well, people used to call things like "street fighter 2" and "mario brothers" games. Just because it doesn't tell a story doesn't mean it's not a game!
(For my part, Quake 3 is one of my all-time favorites..)
Yeah, I agree that the C platform is more stable than Java's, for sure. They also have the benefit of 40+ years. I'm just saying that the idea of pushing common code into a platform and then just debugging it once is a reasonably sound one.
AC, what are you talking about?
Uploading a file to a network, even a copyrighted file, is not automatic copyright violation
I didn't say it was!
Secondly, copyright violation is just something they can sue you for, not a felony, until you pass a certain limit in number of violations and value. This bill changes that.
That's what I said -- this bill clarifies "how much" infringement happens when you upload to a file such that it qualifies as a bona fide crime.
As a Phd student, you should not be making these kinds of mistakes.
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No, all that means is that you can get equivalent quality at 700 megs. It doesn't mean that if you used up the entire 15 gigabyte DVD that you'd necessarily have superior quality to an MPEG-2 encoded one.
Anyway, Divx is very nice, but I don't think you can really say it looks "as good" as the source DVD it was ripped from, unless you're not very picky.
its the compression that sucks. Most movies look pretty damn good on a 700MB Divx.
What the fuck?? I have never seen a Divx movie that wasn't either (a) encoded from a camcorder (which looks like shit anyway) or (b) re-encoded from a DVD. If it's reencoded from a DVD, it can't look better than the DVD, because you've already suffered the compression and decompression.
Maybe you're just saying that if we used MPEG-4 to compress DVDs in the first place, we'd be able to use a much higher bitrate and lose the kind of MPEG-2 artifacts that the poster complains about. I'm not sure that's true, since MPEG-4 is strong mainly at lower bitrates and has many of the same image quality problems that MPEG-2 has. But we can't base our opinion on Divx DVD rips!!
I don't know anything about this, but violet lasers sound awesome!!
(Yes, DVDs don't look even close to film quality, but they're a lot better than VHS, and players cost like $50 now. I say it's a no brainer unless you don't want to be supporting the DVD CCA and a closed "standard"!)
No, we're targeting Tex the language. But we don't want end-users to have to see latex or tex code at all, really, because the whole point is to be rid of that stuff. =) So designing the language with compatibility hooks for LaTeX or TeX macros isn't really possible.
This is only for copyrighted works without authorization, not all files. All it really does is clarify the amount of infringement that is done when uploaded, so that it qualifies for a felony under existing copyright law. I think that's pretty ridiculous, personally, but at least they are not outlawing P2P like the slashdot headline makes it seem.
There are actually some good things in this bill, like one that makes it illegal to cause someone's computer to download some crap-ass software without his consent.
We actually worked on this a bit last summer, and will probably try again. One of the main reasons not to rewrite the front-end language is that there are a load of packages and style files that people rely on, and that would need to be ported. But it would be awfully nice, I agree...
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I think that people are waiting because the software keeps changing. But this should totally be the plan once the platform becomes stable enough to unleash onto the world.
C programmers have to worry about bugs in their applications, c library, the compiler, assembler, operating system, and hardware. Sure, it's great to get the size of code you need to rely on down, but the idea of Java is to get the common bugs (in the platform) ironed out once for everyone. And by pushing much of the complexity into the platform, the hope is that application level bugs will be fewer.
There are probably better ways to do it, but I don't think that the C paradigm is a particularly good example of a successful way to create bug-free software!
One nice thing about it being written in Java is that end-users don't have to worry as much about buffer overflows and other exploits. That's pretty important for this kind of application.
It is true that Knuth did an amazing thing (over the course of a really long time) with TeX and its companion book. But TeX is pretty fucked up in its design (especially the design of the input language) and many aspects of its implementation. It's a worthy museum piece, but don't study the source like it's a religious artifact!
There are a lot of really crappy things about LaTeX, but it is definitely the standard. All the journals and conferences I've submitted to assume you are preparing your document in LaTeX, and give you style files to set everything up correctly. citeseer, as far as I know, can only automatically get information from LaTeX-generated PS and PDF files.
Yeah, but think about all the pen makers that need to feed their families. Disabling your pen-chain so that it can be used in many places throughout the house will make them go hungry!
It's interesting that SCO is still distributing the linux source code right now.
This matrix is obviously a bit biased, but I do believe that linux will be able to legally continue to exist, no matter what. Even if we find out that someone broke into SCO's vaults and stole trade secret source code and pasted it verbatin into linux, it really should be easy to rewrite that code so that it's not infringing. We could start today if SCO told us what parts were infringing, but of course they don't want that...
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I'd love if we could throw out the whole internet and use IPv6 instead. I'd love if we could throw out a lot of legacy technologies, like x86 and C and ASCII and gas engines. But doing this requires a lot of changes to infrastructure!
NAT is great because it's an endpoint-based solution. Stuff like uPNP can be deployed at a single site to make NAT better, and we don't have to touch a single router. (Network guys should read their own influential papers !)
Not a huge problem, but it does require more changes than would simply assigning everything it's own unique id.
Assigning everything its own unique ID requires us to upgrade the entire infrastructure of the internet. How can this be more work?
Yeah, but those 100 IP addresses can be behind a household NAT and share a single IP address. With the way people use the internet today, I'm not sure the crisis is so serious...
The noxious gas in the exhaust of a car is carbon monoxide. Dry ice is solid carbon dioxide. But indeed it can cause asphixiation.
Mario Bros, not Super Mario Bros.
> /me is still shocked at the thought that some people call Quake 3 a game... Nice engine though
Yeah, well, people used to call things like "street fighter 2" and "mario brothers" games. Just because it doesn't tell a story doesn't mean it's not a game!
(For my part, Quake 3 is one of my all-time favorites..)
Yeah, I agree that the C platform is more stable than Java's, for sure. They also have the benefit of 40+ years. I'm just saying that the idea of pushing common code into a platform and then just debugging it once is a reasonably sound one.
AC, what are you talking about? Uploading a file to a network, even a copyrighted file, is not automatic copyright violation I didn't say it was! Secondly, copyright violation is just something they can sue you for, not a felony, until you pass a certain limit in number of violations and value. This bill changes that. That's what I said -- this bill clarifies "how much" infringement happens when you upload to a file such that it qualifies as a bona fide crime. As a Phd student, you should not be making these kinds of mistakes. ?????
No, all that means is that you can get equivalent quality at 700 megs. It doesn't mean that if you used up the entire 15 gigabyte DVD that you'd necessarily have superior quality to an MPEG-2 encoded one.
Anyway, Divx is very nice, but I don't think you can really say it looks "as good" as the source DVD it was ripped from, unless you're not very picky.
its the compression that sucks. Most movies look pretty damn good on a 700MB Divx.
What the fuck?? I have never seen a Divx movie that wasn't either (a) encoded from a camcorder (which looks like shit anyway) or (b) re-encoded from a DVD. If it's reencoded from a DVD, it can't look better than the DVD, because you've already suffered the compression and decompression.
Maybe you're just saying that if we used MPEG-4 to compress DVDs in the first place, we'd be able to use a much higher bitrate and lose the kind of MPEG-2 artifacts that the poster complains about. I'm not sure that's true, since MPEG-4 is strong mainly at lower bitrates and has many of the same image quality problems that MPEG-2 has. But we can't base our opinion on Divx DVD rips!!
I don't know anything about this, but violet lasers sound awesome!!
(Yes, DVDs don't look even close to film quality, but they're a lot better than VHS, and players cost like $50 now. I say it's a no brainer unless you don't want to be supporting the DVD CCA and a closed "standard"!)
No, we're targeting Tex the language. But we don't want end-users to have to see latex or tex code at all, really, because the whole point is to be rid of that stuff. =) So designing the language with compatibility hooks for LaTeX or TeX macros isn't really possible.
This is only for copyrighted works without authorization, not all files. All it really does is clarify the amount of infringement that is done when uploaded, so that it qualifies for a felony under existing copyright law. I think that's pretty ridiculous, personally, but at least they are not outlawing P2P like the slashdot headline makes it seem.
There are actually some good things in this bill, like one that makes it illegal to cause someone's computer to download some crap-ass software without his consent.
We actually worked on this a bit last summer, and will probably try again. One of the main reasons not to rewrite the front-end language is that there are a load of packages and style files that people rely on, and that would need to be ported. But it would be awfully nice, I agree...
I think that people are waiting because the software keeps changing. But this should totally be the plan once the platform becomes stable enough to unleash onto the world.
C programmers have to worry about bugs in their applications, c library, the compiler, assembler, operating system, and hardware. Sure, it's great to get the size of code you need to rely on down, but the idea of Java is to get the common bugs (in the platform) ironed out once for everyone. And by pushing much of the complexity into the platform, the hope is that application level bugs will be fewer.
There are probably better ways to do it, but I don't think that the C paradigm is a particularly good example of a successful way to create bug-free software!
One nice thing about it being written in Java is that end-users don't have to worry as much about buffer overflows and other exploits. That's pretty important for this kind of application.
It's "en passant," and it's exactly the same motion for the capturing piece as when it captures in the standard manner.
Man, I thought "Super Mario Bros." was pretty good, and that was based on a movie.
It is true that Knuth did an amazing thing (over the course of a really long time) with TeX and its companion book. But TeX is pretty fucked up in its design (especially the design of the input language) and many aspects of its implementation. It's a worthy museum piece, but don't study the source like it's a religious artifact!
There are a lot of really crappy things about LaTeX, but it is definitely the standard. All the journals and conferences I've submitted to assume you are preparing your document in LaTeX, and give you style files to set everything up correctly. citeseer , as far as I know, can only automatically get information from LaTeX-generated PS and PDF files.
Yeah, but think about all the pen makers that need to feed their families.
Disabling your pen-chain so that it can be used in many places throughout the house will make them go hungry!
It's more like 90.
Yeah, uh, we'll just use our rail gun launchers to launch that shit into outer space.
It's interesting that SCO is still distributing the linux source code right now.
This matrix is obviously a bit biased, but I do believe that linux will be able to legally continue to exist, no matter what. Even if we find out that someone broke into SCO's vaults and stole trade secret source code and pasted it verbatin into linux, it really should be easy to rewrite that code so that it's not infringing. We could start today if SCO told us what parts were infringing, but of course they don't want that...