It's all about copyright? NO, follow the money, it's not. It's also a lost cause, we knew that, but not for the reasons I'm about to explain.
I have long wondered if this is all really about the filmmakers and their copyright. An author I know explained this is actually all about the food chain that needs to get paid. When you consider how little the original artist receives on a sale of any work these days it makes a lot of sense. If you follow the money through studios to post production, distributors and cinema chains you start to see a lot of people who don't get paid when a movie is distributed by digital means even if the movie was not illegally copied.
BIttorrent and it's popularity for sharing content proves that delivering over the internet is entirely viable, and the studios should have got started doing it 10 years ago. The Internet currently supports gazillions of downloads of music and movies in a distributed fashion, for all practical purposes you could say distribution cost is close to zero.
The net is not much of a threat to an artist, but it's a huge threat to the enormous food chain involved in getting content from artist to consumer, be it in print, CD, DVD or cinema movie.
I used to work for a print company, and there wasn't a day that passed without someone talking about the company was going to compete with the internet. Others I know in various industries share similar experiences over the last decade or two. So I can't help feeling a lot of people don't like the internet and there will be much more lawsuit flinging to come - especially as piracy is only just getting started.
So what's next? Piracy will be driven to darknets with encryption and onion routing right? Bittorrent was not designed for piracy, in fact it's rather liberal with spamming your ip address everywhere - anonymity improvements are not hard to see. Problem solved right? Piracy can continue? Scary but governments may go to the dark path and not allow encrypted links between unauthorized hosts, not allow peered traffic, and other draconian measures. I doubt that will happen.
As the performance of internet connections improves, so the overhead of trading content of a given size (VCD/DVID/Blu-ray rips) naturally falls. A 700mb.avi of a DVD rip would take a while to download in 2003 and you'd fit a few dozen on a inexpensive 80gb hard drive. Now it comes down in minutes for a popular torrent, and you can fit thousands on the two terabyte drive you can buy for the price I paid for my roomy 80gb in 2003!
So you can see where that is going. There is also another darknet, one the groupthink around here doesn't seem to discuss. It is untraceable, and impossible to monitor. It's called the Swap Club. Large external hard drives and cheap USB thumbdrives are now so ubiquitous I've noticed a trend of people sharing entire collections of music and movies on portable hard drives. You leech what you want, copy on your shit if you think people will like it, delete the porn folder yet again, pass it along to the next person.
It's like a portable LAN party, and we all know what happens at those.
There isn't a respectable School/University/IT firm that doesn't have some sort of swap club going on, and it's going to get worse.
You can already get 32Gb microsd cards, as big as your pinky fingernail. What happens when, thanks to Moore's law, these things hit hundreds of gigabytes of storage? You could stitch dozens of these into the seams of your clothing and easily bootleg a lot of data through any ACTA border search.
So yeah my hypothetical 1000-movie collection is going to fit in a cheap SDcard in 2015 and I'll be able to fit several peoples collections in a $!0 USB stick by 2020. Is my black belt in Google Fu faded in the wash or is no one else making the logical predictions regarding piracy that come from extrapolating where Moore's law is taking price/capacity/bandwidth of digital data? Just you wait and see how piracy is going to change the digital landscape over the next decade.
It's going to be very bad, and somehow awesome too. You ain't seen nuttin yet
You need to learn you lesson for patronizing vendors of cheap garbage technology.
Why did you not pay a little more for your flash drives and get something more reliable? If you want to go to the trouble of resurrecting your half-dead flash drives you can spend the $10-20 on a new one from a major brand name.
The problems you describe sound like shitty controller circuitry, that's either failing, poorly designed or quite likely both.
The lower level operations of flash are abstracted away behind the controller, with the exception of some drives theres you can't do much about it.
USB Flash drives and cards can be brought back to as-new performance by performing a write-erase pass over the entire drive. This was used to revive degraded used SSDs that would drop in performance, the TRIM feature now takes care of this on the fly. About all you can do for thumb drives and cards is to perform a single erase pass. If that doesn't work you're SOL.
At maximum write speed it may take a decade to destroy a SSD with wear leveling. So this kind of testing is still irrelevant in real world.
At 100mb/s it takes 10 minutes to write to every block once on a 64gb SSD, it would take 19 years to complete one million write cycles on every single flash cell.
It is impossible to test a whole SSD in real world scenarios, because the flash may outlive the circuity controlling it (especially flaky RoHS compliant crap) and in a decade or more your test is irrelvant. They could test to destruction a single flash chip however, but this helps little for someone trying to gauge whether a SSD is any good. Chip makers obviously test individual chips and use statistics to estimate lifetime of a SSD product, but nobody can say for sure what happens in 5-10 years time.
(But yes it is possible varying quality in mass producted flash may cause some blocks to fail prematurely of course, then wear-leveling and spare-block allocation has to demostrate it's stuff).
The full 1000x potential won't be extracted straight away, we may see this technology in the next generation x2 or x5 the density. Now that Big Content has found a reason for more capacity with 3D, and a reason to make your existing movie collection obsolete, they will be looking for the sucessor for blu-ray 3-4 years down the track (because honestly it hasn't taken over from DVDs yet).
Interestingly in CD-ROM's heyday it wasn't uncommon for a PC to have a smaller hard drive than the amount of data that would fit on a CD-ROM. About the time DVD-ROMs were out I suppose hard drives were only a little larger. Blue-rays were fraction the size of a hard drive when the format spec was finalized (2005). Now hard drives are 20-40x larger than a blu-ray disc.
Carelessly extrapolating from the trend I predict we might not see this technology in widespread use until a common consumer hard drive is past the 25TB mark.
Design your user interface as a standards complient web interface. Why is there any need to code a native client to a system at all? A web interface can easily and rapidly be tweaked as browsers evolve, tweaking or rewriting binary applications is much more involved.
Having one single unified Android market which adds terrific value to your handset, is going to ensure any fragmentation doesn't get too bad. This is the basis of why I dismiss these fears out of hand. I'd only worry if the market itself fragmented.
Is it really still open then? This is the source of the oxymoron. That's a pretty restrictice OSS licence then isn't it? Open source is more than just code visibility. Macs are weakly open.
I'm still waiting for 2.0 for my G1. Why should I care about 2.2?
Yes I know I can root my phone and shoehorn a modded OS on there. I really don't want to hear about your 1337 hax. I want a supported update.
I won't badger you about aftermarket ROMs and how awesome I think they are (because I do), but I will say some major mods are actually well supported with frequent updates. Carefully done , you can back up your stock rom, test drive the aftermarket ROM and if need be roll back to the stock software. I also understand that re-flashing the official firmware is sufficient to retain your warranty should you need to make a claim.
You deserve mod points if I had them because you touch on an important issue that just doesn't seem to be discussed publicly. Is the scrutiny of open source submissions good enough? How are sources gauged for trustworthiness? It's always bothered me how much security is assumed in the million eyes principal.
Tighten your tinfoil hats or even consider another layer of foil. You can indeed have perfectly innocent-looking code that even does what it appears to be coded for, but can indeed to do something malicious. http://underhanded.xcott.com/ (I think they should award extra points for getting your code approved for the iPhone/iPad App store and a instant first place win for getting your code into a open project)
I have to wonder if this technique has been used to get a back door into a OSS application at any point. We wouldn't necessarily know about it. When found, often the code could appear to be just a mistake or common vulnerability, having perhaps been made to look that way and someone will fix it there and then. It's not implausible that vulnerabilities have been intentionally injected into open projects.
No DRM. Not having root access in stock Android carrier/HTC will sufficiently prevent casual copying of paid apps to another device. After market ROMs or a ROOT access package will most certainly have this restriction lifted. You are not DRM-locked into not being able to copy/backup your paid apps, but you will void your warranty to do so.
If there is, it will be rather easily removed with superuser permissions.
By far the best feature of Android is the thriving community of after-market OS builds. It's like upgrading your phone for free. I'm not affiliated, but right now feel obliged to shameless endorse CyanogenMod's G1/G2/Nexus One custom ROMs http://www.cyanogenmod.com./
Or a similar package is best. You get a nice number you can put into graphs and/or powerpoint presentation which such top brass is known to like. IMHO as long as your desktops are reasonable I wouldn't worry. The future is going to need good network infrastructure performance. Focus on gigabit ethernet, as someone mentioned above.
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Design is related to critical thinking and creativity, being among things evaporating from our school systems in developed nations. These, along with any any physical education and core science education.
So far any carbon trading scheme I've heard of doesn't fully take into account international trading. My country like several others is a huge net agricultural exporter. Argiculture being responsible for 50% of our emissions. Therefore its as if other countries are poluting here, yet the producer/exporter gets the bill under current proposals.
What then of all the high value goods we import (which have a high impact per given mass compared with food), these don't polute here, but some other country has paid the price both in impact and in tax.
What a way to collapse global trade.
Any system needs to a per-ton value on carbon, as a baseline, and then build the system bottom-up from there. Slapping taxes on everything seems to be the only option being considered.
While it's true we lose some gas at the top of our atmosphere, earth is probably sufficiently large that we have a net growth due to meteorite bombardment. (By every measure I've heard of the earth is supposedly getting heavier). We may take on extra H2O from water ice in meteroids?
This slashdot article is infact a masterful troll from CmdrTaco. Not only is that headline a working example, but any name dropping in the comments will add to the effect in google ranking also. I therefore humbly submit this comment (See subject).
Seriously. Why didn't they just dump something like vanilla ubuntu on the laptop? At least it would have something on it. If it's being sold without an OS, presumably it's being sold to someone who knows how to install. Even Asus' Splashtop would have been good.
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It's all about copyright? NO, follow the money, it's not. It's also a lost cause, we knew that, but not for the reasons I'm about to explain.
.avi of a DVD rip would take a while to download in 2003 and you'd fit a few dozen on a inexpensive 80gb hard drive. Now it comes down in minutes for a popular torrent, and you can fit thousands on the two terabyte drive you can buy for the price I paid for my roomy 80gb in 2003!
I have long wondered if this is all really about the filmmakers and their copyright. An author I know explained this is actually all about the food chain that needs to get paid. When you consider how little the original artist receives on a sale of any work these days it makes a lot of sense. If you follow the money through studios to post production, distributors and cinema chains you start to see a lot of people who don't get paid when a movie is distributed by digital means even if the movie was not illegally copied.
BIttorrent and it's popularity for sharing content proves that delivering over the internet is entirely viable, and the studios should have got started doing it 10 years ago. The Internet currently supports gazillions of downloads of music and movies in a distributed fashion, for all practical purposes you could say distribution cost is close to zero.
The net is not much of a threat to an artist, but it's a huge threat to the enormous food chain involved in getting content from artist to consumer, be it in print, CD, DVD or cinema movie.
I used to work for a print company, and there wasn't a day that passed without someone talking about the company was going to compete with the internet. Others I know in various industries share similar experiences over the last decade or two. So I can't help feeling a lot of people don't like the internet and there will be much more lawsuit flinging to come - especially as piracy is only just getting started.
So what's next? Piracy will be driven to darknets with encryption and onion routing right? Bittorrent was not designed for piracy, in fact it's rather liberal with spamming your ip address everywhere - anonymity improvements are not hard to see. Problem solved right? Piracy can continue? Scary but governments may go to the dark path and not allow encrypted links between unauthorized hosts, not allow peered traffic, and other draconian measures. I doubt that will happen.
As the performance of internet connections improves, so the overhead of trading content of a given size (VCD/DVID/Blu-ray rips) naturally falls. A 700mb
So you can see where that is going. There is also another darknet, one the groupthink around here doesn't seem to discuss. It is untraceable, and impossible to monitor. It's called the Swap Club. Large external hard drives and cheap USB thumbdrives are now so ubiquitous I've noticed a trend of people sharing entire collections of music and movies on portable hard drives. You leech what you want, copy on your shit if you think people will like it, delete the porn folder yet again, pass it along to the next person.
It's like a portable LAN party, and we all know what happens at those.
There isn't a respectable School/University/IT firm that doesn't have some sort of swap club going on, and it's going to get worse.
You can already get 32Gb microsd cards, as big as your pinky fingernail. What happens when, thanks to Moore's law, these things hit hundreds of gigabytes of storage? You could stitch dozens of these into the seams of your clothing and easily bootleg a lot of data through any ACTA border search.
So yeah my hypothetical 1000-movie collection is going to fit in a cheap SDcard in 2015 and I'll be able to fit several peoples collections in a $!0 USB stick by 2020. Is my black belt in Google Fu faded in the wash or is no one else making the logical predictions regarding piracy that come from extrapolating where Moore's law is taking price/capacity/bandwidth of digital data? Just you wait and see how piracy is going to change the digital landscape over the next decade.
It's going to be very bad, and somehow awesome too. You ain't seen nuttin yet
You need to learn you lesson for patronizing vendors of cheap garbage technology.
Why did you not pay a little more for your flash drives and get something more reliable? If you want to go to the trouble of resurrecting your half-dead flash drives you can spend the $10-20 on a new one from a major brand name.
The problems you describe sound like shitty controller circuitry, that's either failing, poorly designed or quite likely both.
The lower level operations of flash are abstracted away behind the controller, with the exception of some drives theres you can't do much about it.
USB Flash drives and cards can be brought back to as-new performance by performing a write-erase pass over the entire drive. This was used to revive degraded used SSDs that would drop in performance, the TRIM feature now takes care of this on the fly. About all you can do for thumb drives and cards is to perform a single erase pass. If that doesn't work you're SOL.
At maximum write speed it may take a decade to destroy a SSD with wear leveling. So this kind of testing is still irrelevant in real world.
At 100mb/s it takes 10 minutes to write to every block once on a 64gb SSD, it would take 19 years to complete one million write cycles on every single flash cell.
It is impossible to test a whole SSD in real world scenarios, because the flash may outlive the circuity controlling it (especially flaky RoHS compliant crap) and in a decade or more your test is irrelvant. They could test to destruction a single flash chip however, but this helps little for someone trying to gauge whether a SSD is any good. Chip makers obviously test individual chips and use statistics to estimate lifetime of a SSD product, but nobody can say for sure what happens in 5-10 years time.
(But yes it is possible varying quality in mass producted flash may cause some blocks to fail prematurely of course, then wear-leveling and spare-block allocation has to demostrate it's stuff).
After playing crappy console ports my dreams had poor load times, choppy frame rate and would frequently crash.
The full 1000x potential won't be extracted straight away, we may see this technology in the next generation x2 or x5 the density. Now that Big Content has found a reason for more capacity with 3D, and a reason to make your existing movie collection obsolete, they will be looking for the sucessor for blu-ray 3-4 years down the track (because honestly it hasn't taken over from DVDs yet).
Interestingly in CD-ROM's heyday it wasn't uncommon for a PC to have a smaller hard drive than the amount of data that would fit on a CD-ROM. About the time DVD-ROMs were out I suppose hard drives were only a little larger. Blue-rays were fraction the size of a hard drive when the format spec was finalized (2005). Now hard drives are 20-40x larger than a blu-ray disc.
Carelessly extrapolating from the trend I predict we might not see this technology in widespread use until a common consumer hard drive is past the 25TB mark.
Random Hacks of Sedition. RHoS is so masterful I see they've hacked most printing companies that make labels for consumer electronics!
'If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.'
Cool, it's going on YouTube.
Design your user interface as a standards complient web interface. Why is there any need to code a native client to a system at all? A web interface can easily and rapidly be tweaked as browsers evolve, tweaking or rewriting binary applications is much more involved.
Having one single unified Android market which adds terrific value to your handset, is going to ensure any fragmentation doesn't get too bad. This is the basis of why I dismiss these fears out of hand. I'd only worry if the market itself fragmented.
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Why not just erase the HDD and buy another ? $50
Mac is pretty open. ... locked to apple hardware
Is it really still open then? This is the source of the oxymoron. That's a pretty restrictice OSS licence then isn't it? Open source is more than just code visibility. Macs are weakly open.
I'm still waiting for 2.0 for my G1. Why should I care about 2.2?
Yes I know I can root my phone and shoehorn a modded OS on there. I really don't want to hear about your 1337 hax. I want a supported update.
I won't badger you about aftermarket ROMs and how awesome I think they are (because I do), but I will say some major mods are actually well supported with frequent updates. Carefully done , you can back up your stock rom, test drive the aftermarket ROM and if need be roll back to the stock software. I also understand that re-flashing the official firmware is sufficient to retain your warranty should you need to make a claim.
You deserve mod points if I had them because you touch on an important issue that just doesn't seem to be discussed publicly. Is the scrutiny of open source submissions good enough? How are sources gauged for trustworthiness? It's always bothered me how much security is assumed in the million eyes principal.
Sure Android is open source, but Google's default applications are closed source. In fact developers of after market mods have gotten into trouble for including apps such as Google Maps, Gtalk etc. http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/09/29/1510232/Android-Modder-Tries-To-Outmaneuver-Google?from=rss Even if the OSS portion of the OS is clean, who knows what these collect and send back to Google?
Tighten your tinfoil hats or even consider another layer of foil. You can indeed have perfectly innocent-looking code that even does what it appears to be coded for, but can indeed to do something malicious. http://underhanded.xcott.com/ (I think they should award extra points for getting your code approved for the iPhone/iPad App store and a instant first place win for getting your code into a open project)
I have to wonder if this technique has been used to get a back door into a OSS application at any point. We wouldn't necessarily know about it. When found, often the code could appear to be just a mistake or common vulnerability, having perhaps been made to look that way and someone will fix it there and then. It's not implausible that vulnerabilities have been intentionally injected into open projects.
No DRM. Not having root access in stock Android carrier/HTC will sufficiently prevent casual copying of paid apps to another device. After market ROMs or a ROOT access package will most certainly have this restriction lifted. You are not DRM-locked into not being able to copy/backup your paid apps, but you will void your warranty to do so.
If there is, it will be rather easily removed with superuser permissions.
By far the best feature of Android is the thriving community of after-market OS builds. It's like upgrading your phone for free. I'm not affiliated, but right now feel obliged to shameless endorse CyanogenMod's G1/G2/Nexus One custom ROMs http://www.cyanogenmod.com./
... tabbed channels?
Or a similar package is best. You get a nice number you can put into graphs and/or powerpoint presentation which such top brass is known to like. IMHO as long as your desktops are reasonable I wouldn't worry. The future is going to need good network infrastructure performance. Focus on gigabit ethernet, as someone mentioned above.
Design is related to critical thinking and creativity, being among things evaporating from our school systems in developed nations. These, along with any any physical education and core science education.
So far any carbon trading scheme I've heard of doesn't fully take into account international trading. My country like several others is a huge net agricultural exporter. Argiculture being responsible for 50% of our emissions. Therefore its as if other countries are poluting here, yet the producer/exporter gets the bill under current proposals.
What then of all the high value goods we import (which have a high impact per given mass compared with food), these don't polute here, but some other country has paid the price both in impact and in tax.
What a way to collapse global trade.
Any system needs to a per-ton value on carbon, as a baseline, and then build the system bottom-up from there. Slapping taxes on everything seems to be the only option being considered.
While it's true we lose some gas at the top of our atmosphere, earth is probably sufficiently large that we have a net growth due to meteorite bombardment. (By every measure I've heard of the earth is supposedly getting heavier). We may take on extra H2O from water ice in meteroids?
This slashdot article is infact a masterful troll from CmdrTaco. Not only is that headline a working example, but any name dropping in the comments will add to the effect in google ranking also. I therefore humbly submit this comment (See subject).
Seriously. Why didn't they just dump something like vanilla ubuntu on the laptop? At least it would have something on it. If it's being sold without an OS, presumably it's being sold to someone who knows how to install. Even Asus' Splashtop would have been good.
I tried it for a few minutes, and the Prius never suddenly accelerated. Clearly the simulation is flawed.
Clearly the simulation doesn't account for cosmic rays. http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/03/cosmic-rays-may-have-driven-toyota-vehicles-crazy.php
This guy is starting to sound more and more like a software engineer.
Poppycock. How many metric asstons did you factor into your 'meticulous' calculations?