The resolution of informing the general public about this matter is the best solution there is. However, since most of the large TV networks out there are owned by most of the media giants to begin with - do you think that they will really do a story on this? Hellllll no!
They will most likely try and kill it before it surfaces, so that they'll be in the same position as the the MPAA and RIAA.
The only REAL way to pass this on to the joe schmoe is to FORWARD the addresses of the article and the bill of rights to EVERYONE YOU KNOW - and tell them to do the same!
Look how fast email virus hoaxes poliferate, why can't we do the same with this? LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD!
Now instead of getting "network busy" signals on my sprint PCS (the all digital from the ground up - yet lacking capacity to support its user base) phone - I'll be getting them on my laptop.
Seriously, I don't know how they plan on pulling this off without a massive upgrade in infrastructure - unless they team up with a cellular provider that already has most of the coverage in the US (verizon, sprint, etc). I don't know about you but I already experience the growing pains of my CSP (cellular service provider). Who else out there hasn't had the experience of dropped calls, busy signals, and vertiable cellular "black holes," where service doesn't even exist?
I say that before they even THINK about doing something like this that they have a plan in place to isolate the computer service from the handset service. Otherwise all of the spoiled 12 and 13 year olds out there won't be able to chat away all night long on their very own cell phones due to log-jammed cell switches.....
According to their arguments - the RIAA owns the rights to the music, and all the royalties entitled to it. Well, if that's the case - let them put copy protection on all of the CD's and DVD's they want. When it gets scratched or damaged, I'll just send my CD back and demand they send a new one to replace it. After all, I've paid MY licensing fee. If they don't send me a new copy to replace the damaged one, they're not honoring the purchase contract that I agreed to when opening their CD......Let's just see what happens when the RIAA has to start giving away millions of CD's as replacements. Oh, and for the argument of "once it leaves the shop its out of my control" - I could say the same thing, only in different terms - "once the CD leaves the store, its out of my control, if a copy happens to get made, than it must have been an act of God."
A nice article detailing the coming demise of the RIAA!
Short summary - its about how the music industry is starting to collapse. Like a rat backed into a corner, the RIAA is trying to impose some "strongarm" tatics. Mostly this article deals with music encryption on their CD's, but does do a bang up job discussing its flaws.
What I really don't understand is why the RIAA wants to treat US the consumers, as bad guys? What ever happened to trying to PLEASE the customer, not piss them off even more? Haven't any of these folks taken economics classes in school (that is if they even WENT), its called supply and demand. You f@ck up the supply chain more by flooding the country who BUYS most of their crap with non-working, encrypted coasters, and the demand for said crap drops - thus inciting further financial ruin to them.
Finally - don't play the "piracy" card for the kiddies of the USA, just LOOK at Asia! Piracy is by far more rampant there than anywhere in the world! If you are going to try and claim that MP3's and Napster have taken a "gouge" out of your music sales think again. Just take a walk down the streets of Bejiing during the open market and see how many illegal software and music titles you can find amongst the rats.......
To the RIAA - I say F@CK you, you're day will come when your empire will topple......
Here I go out and buy me one of these "megacars (www.megacar.com)," (you know, the ones with the 16 GSM modules?) and they come out with this. What a waste of $300,000.....sheeoot
I see a lot of posts here about improving bandwidth, blah blah blah....What the gurus who standardize this sheit need to do is ADD more friggen IRQ lines and DMA's!!! Breaking away from IRQ SHARING would be like the holy friggen grail!
People don't realize that NASA isn't going to just launch a plasma based ship directly from earth. That would be too costly and could cause some problems. Instead, the chain of events most likely be a three tier journey, starting off with a stop at the space station orbiting earth for supplies, than again at a base on the moon for more supplies. Albeit this is all hypothetical since we have no base on the moon (or for that matter an actual full fledged space station yet). There are many hurdles to overcome before we can attempt a mission to mars....I sure hope that I am still alive to see it (or manned deep space exploration for that matter - which could happen if trends in technology continue). Just my $.02....
Well if I remember back to my digital classes, there are going to have to be ALOT of address lines to access each individual bit, which means more metal, which means more heat! Especially if they say they are going to try and stack them (like poker chips). Also, I can see why the manufacturing process would be cheaper. As the article says, there are NO transistors. If anyone has taken a VLSI class they know how many steps are involved in the fabrication process of transistors....Its a wonder how intel and amd can sell their chips for so little!
My god ppl....I can't believe all of the shit I'm hearing from most of you! "It won't work," "It's a hoax," "Why bother, we don't need that much space anyhow." For christs sake, you have all turned into hippocrites.....Don't you remember back in the day when you wanted a hard drive and 500MB was enough? But what happened? People with a thirst for excelling and pushing things further developed bigger and better hard drives....I for one don't see this as a step backwards by any means, in fact it may just be the beginning of a whole new era of computing. If everyone said "oh that will never work" all of the time, we'd never be where we are today. It is the ability to have an OPEN MIND that spawns this cool new ideas and inventions. Think about that next time you open your mouth to complain......
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The resolution of informing the general public about this matter is the best solution there is. However, since most of the large TV networks out there are owned by most of the media giants to begin with - do you think that they will really do a story on this? Hellllll no!
They will most likely try and kill it before it surfaces, so that they'll be in the same position as the the MPAA and RIAA.
The only REAL way to pass this on to the joe schmoe is to FORWARD the addresses of the article and the bill of rights to EVERYONE YOU KNOW - and tell them to do the same!
Look how fast email virus hoaxes poliferate, why can't we do the same with this? LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD!
Now instead of getting "network busy" signals on my sprint PCS (the all digital from the ground up - yet lacking capacity to support its user base) phone - I'll be getting them on my laptop.
Seriously, I don't know how they plan on pulling this off without a massive upgrade in infrastructure - unless they team up with a cellular provider that already has most of the coverage in the US (verizon, sprint, etc). I don't know about you but I already experience the growing pains of my CSP (cellular service provider). Who else out there hasn't had the experience of dropped calls, busy signals, and vertiable cellular "black holes," where service doesn't even exist?
I say that before they even THINK about doing something like this that they have a plan in place to isolate the computer service from the handset service. Otherwise all of the spoiled 12 and 13 year olds out there won't be able to chat away all night long on their very own cell phones due to log-jammed cell switches.....
Just my $.02
According to their arguments - the RIAA owns the rights to the music, and all the royalties entitled to it. Well, if that's the case - let them put copy protection on all of the CD's and DVD's they want. When it gets scratched or damaged, I'll just send my CD back and demand they send a new one to replace it. After all, I've paid MY licensing fee. If they don't send me a new copy to replace the damaged one, they're not honoring the purchase contract that I agreed to when opening their CD......Let's just see what happens when the RIAA has to start giving away millions of CD's as replacements. Oh, and for the argument of "once it leaves the shop its out of my control" - I could say the same thing, only in different terms - "once the CD leaves the store, its out of my control, if a copy happens to get made, than it must have been an act of God."
A nice article detailing the coming demise of the RIAA!
Short summary - its about how the music industry is starting to collapse. Like a rat backed into a corner, the RIAA is trying to impose some "strongarm" tatics. Mostly this article deals with music encryption on their CD's, but does do a bang up job discussing its flaws.
What I really don't understand is why the RIAA wants to treat US the consumers, as bad guys? What ever happened to trying to PLEASE the customer, not piss them off even more? Haven't any of these folks taken economics classes in school (that is if they even WENT), its called supply and demand. You f@ck up the supply chain more by flooding the country who BUYS most of their crap with non-working, encrypted coasters, and the demand for said crap drops - thus inciting further financial ruin to them.
Finally - don't play the "piracy" card for the kiddies of the USA, just LOOK at Asia! Piracy is by far more rampant there than anywhere in the world! If you are going to try and claim that MP3's and Napster have taken a "gouge" out of your music sales think again. Just take a walk down the streets of Bejiing during the open market and see how many illegal software and music titles you can find amongst the rats.......
To the RIAA - I say F@CK you, you're day will come when your empire will topple......
Here I go out and buy me one of these "megacars (www.megacar.com)," (you know, the ones with the 16 GSM modules?) and they come out with this. What a waste of $300,000.....sheeoot
I see a lot of posts here about improving bandwidth, blah blah blah....What the gurus who standardize this sheit need to do is ADD more friggen IRQ lines and DMA's!!! Breaking away from IRQ SHARING would be like the holy friggen grail!
People don't realize that NASA isn't going to just launch a plasma based ship directly from earth. That would be too costly and could cause some problems. Instead, the chain of events most likely be a three tier journey, starting off with a stop at the space station orbiting earth for supplies, than again at a base on the moon for more supplies. Albeit this is all hypothetical since we have no base on the moon (or for that matter an actual full fledged space station yet). There are many hurdles to overcome before we can attempt a mission to mars....I sure hope that I am still alive to see it (or manned deep space exploration for that matter - which could happen if trends in technology continue). Just my $.02....
Sorry, the correct address is http://www.dti3d.com
Well if I remember back to my digital classes, there are going to have to be ALOT of address lines to access each individual bit, which means more metal, which means more heat! Especially if they say they are going to try and stack them (like poker chips). Also, I can see why the manufacturing process would be cheaper. As the article says, there are NO transistors. If anyone has taken a VLSI class they know how many steps are involved in the fabrication process of transistors....Its a wonder how intel and amd can sell their chips for so little!
My god ppl....I can't believe all of the shit I'm hearing from most of you! "It won't work," "It's a hoax," "Why bother, we don't need that much space anyhow." For christs sake, you have all turned into hippocrites.....Don't you remember back in the day when you wanted a hard drive and 500MB was enough? But what happened? People with a thirst for excelling and pushing things further developed bigger and better hard drives....I for one don't see this as a step backwards by any means, in fact it may just be the beginning of a whole new era of computing. If everyone said "oh that will never work" all of the time, we'd never be where we are today. It is the ability to have an OPEN MIND that spawns this cool new ideas and inventions. Think about that next time you open your mouth to complain......