The reason why this won't work (and why many schemes like it have failed) is simple. Anything you can show the user is open to piracy.
What's to stop someone writing a program that simply captures everything displayed to the screen to a massive mpeg? (and there are programs that do this already...)
Or, if there's some sort of detector for this kind of thing built into the special viewer, what's to stop someone running VMware or wine under linux and then changing a few lines of code so that instead of displaying output to screen, it writes it to a file?
The simple fact of the matter is that no matter what you do to try and prevent piracy, there is ALWAYS a way around it at a low software/hardware level.
That's my 2c.
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Instead of using water or other lame obstacles a la Myst, they can simply formulate other means of holding the player character back.
For example, they could just put some sort of magical forcefield, or brick wall, or something even more subtle. Cyrus are a pretty innovative bunch, so they'll probably do some cool stuff now that they have more freedom (and funding).
If everyone distributed the code with their software, even if it wasn't free, then you'd be able to see if someone was stealing your code, hence you wouldn't have to worry about IP problems.
I think you'll probably find, upon rereading Gibson's Count Zero (the best, IMO) and Neuromancer, and Stephenson's Snow Crash, that the similarities between them are merely skin deep.
Are you seriously implying that you completely neglected to realise that that part of the story was told from a 1940's American's position? Of COURSE they're bigoted! Hey, most of them still are. Jeeze...
Incredibly, I actually learnt the bulk of algebra through basic programming when I was about 8 years old !:) A knowledge of algebra certainly isn't necessary to being programming, I can even see how it could be of hindrance to some. (ie maths v programming syntax)
Anyone who has anything that they don't want the government to read is going to encrypt it with PGP, so the UK government is in no way justified by doing this.
I mean really, this is just an excuse for the government to infringe upon the average joe's basic right to privacy, once again.
I would expect that any traffic travelling over a wireless protocol would be encrypted in some way. You would have to be pretty stupid to send something sensitive over a wireless network unencrypted in the first place.
Also, you would have to have a pretty retarded PDA if it were to just accept what it's given without any sort of verification and display it (as with your kiddie porn example)
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Surely you've noticed that everyone has a unique body shape?
Since when is 24-bit (or 16-bit at very least) limited? Where'd you get your graphics card?!!
What's the big deal?
What's to stop someone writing a program that simply captures everything displayed to the screen to a massive mpeg? (and there are programs that do this already...)
Or, if there's some sort of detector for this kind of thing built into the special viewer, what's to stop someone running VMware or wine under linux and then changing a few lines of code so that instead of displaying output to screen, it writes it to a file?
The simple fact of the matter is that no matter what you do to try and prevent piracy, there is ALWAYS a way around it at a low software/hardware level.
That's my 2c.
For example, they could just put some sort of magical forcefield, or brick wall, or something even more subtle. Cyrus are a pretty innovative bunch, so they'll probably do some cool stuff now that they have more freedom (and funding).
...and what if JFK's assasinator had missed? This speculation is useless.
"With Win2K, Linux doesn't even have the stability advantage anymore."
Win2K can hardly be classified as stable as linux, it's not even as stable as NT4.
If everyone distributed the code with their software, even if it wasn't free, then you'd be able to see if someone was stealing your code, hence you wouldn't have to worry about IP problems.
You do realise that there are better ways... :)
I think you'll probably find, upon rereading Gibson's Count Zero (the best, IMO) and Neuromancer, and Stephenson's Snow Crash, that the similarities between them are merely skin deep.
Are you seriously implying that you completely neglected to realise that that part of the story was told from a 1940's American's position? Of COURSE they're bigoted! Hey, most of them still are. Jeeze...
Finish the book, and you'll understand :P
The books are just so damn good, you never want them to end. When I finished Cryptonomicon, I felt like a part of my life dissapeared! :)
Why was this moderated down? I laughed.
Molecular polarity rocks!
Incredibly, I actually learnt the bulk of algebra through basic programming when I was about 8 years old ! :) A knowledge of algebra certainly isn't necessary to being programming, I can even see how it could be of hindrance to some. (ie maths v programming syntax)
I suppose those who censor are always doomed to failure anyway, and why not start with buffer overflows ? :)
Need I say more?
But the question remains, who were these men? And why were they all called Brian? And why the hell wasn't this in any of my History classes?!
I mean really, this is just an excuse for the government to infringe upon the average joe's basic right to privacy, once again.
My TV rocks over any computer monitor... But I suppose it is a widescreen digital, that cost about 10x more than a Sony 21".
Also, you would have to have a pretty retarded PDA if it were to just accept what it's given without any sort of verification and display it (as with your kiddie porn example)