TiVo voluntarily added this crap to their product, so it is their fault.
(I don't completely believe Caesar's article. What law forces TiVo to implement DRM? FCC broadcast flag approval is a red herring, since the broadcast flag was killed.)
When Google sells back the collection, they'd have to delete the copies, thus defeating the purpose. Copyright law allows you to make copies as long as the copies follow the original.
If a book is out of print it is unlikely that the publisher will opt-in. In particular, if the publisher is out of business there may be no way to opt-in at all, ensuring that those works will be lost forever.
And as a practical matter, Amazon/A9 already took care of indexing the books whose publishers are willing to opt-in.
Also, to be honest, times change. Because Web search engines existed before today's copyright madness, they've been effectively grandfathered in. Libraries are the same way; if they were invented today the Author's Guild would probably be lobbying against them.
Apple supposedly make no money because they are passing ~75 cents per song to the record companies. This money is pure profit for the record companies.
If the record companies started selling music directly to customers at $1/song, they would likely make about as much as they do now.
Open source doesn't have imagination or innovation, yet is likely to put innovators out of business?
Yes. Consider worse is better to be a sort of Gresham's law for software: bad software that is given away for $0 (whether it is open source or not, actually) drives out more-innovative commercial software. People say that they value innovation, but in the end nothing beats the allure of free.
Sending a hash to a tracker only proves that the peer is in possession of a block; it doesn't prove that the peer actually sent the block to any other peer. Then a hacked peer can just tell the tracker that it uploaded 10 copies of one block instead of 1.
Do you happen to know what kind of real world performance we might see from this equipment, given the inefficiencies required to play nicely with existing 802.11 gear?
Airgo says 100 Mbps, so maybe 80 Mbps to be safe.
Also, do you know of any plans to ditch or improve the 802.11 MAC?
There are some slight differences, though. Broadcom's pre-g chips were based on a near-final draft of the 802.11g standard, while 802.11n isn't even to the first draft yet.
Also, I don't think the market intrudes much into the IEEE standards process; there seems to be the same amount of arguing no matter what's going on in the outside world.
WiMax can provide high speed (50Mbps+) over long distances (tested at over 60 miles).
No, it can provide high speed or long distance, but not both at the same time. For really large sectors that will be used in rural areas, expect 10Mbps or less total throughput.
AACS is supposed to allow "managed copies" which will allow you to rip these discs on Vista systems. You probably won't be able to burn the copy, though.
There are other differences in the logical formats. Blu-ray has BD-J (Java) and various other interactive features, along with more DRM. One compromise that was suggested months ago was putting the HD-DVD logical format on the Blu-ray physical format (or vice versa).
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This is CGMS-A, not the broadcast flag. CGMS-A is located in the VBI. The box exists if you can find it...
What law says they have to sign a Macrovision license?
The PPV and VOD broadcasts are encrypted by [Macrovision's] technology.
Mavcrovision and CGMS-A are not encryption, thus you can totally ignore them if you want to. (e.g. most video capture cards ignore that stuff)
TiVo voluntarily added this crap to their product, so it is their fault.
(I don't completely believe Caesar's article. What law forces TiVo to implement DRM? FCC broadcast flag approval is a red herring, since the broadcast flag was killed.)
When Google sells back the collection, they'd have to delete the copies, thus defeating the purpose. Copyright law allows you to make copies as long as the copies follow the original.
If a book is out of print it is unlikely that the publisher will opt-in. In particular, if the publisher is out of business there may be no way to opt-in at all, ensuring that those works will be lost forever.
And as a practical matter, Amazon/A9 already took care of indexing the books whose publishers are willing to opt-in.
But books are not.
Also, to be honest, times change. Because Web search engines existed before today's copyright madness, they've been effectively grandfathered in. Libraries are the same way; if they were invented today the Author's Guild would probably be lobbying against them.
Oops, I knew I forgot something. But I don't think Xserve RAID was a very big factor in the Intel switch.
Apple doesn't use XScale.
Apple supposedly make no money because they are passing ~75 cents per song to the record companies. This money is pure profit for the record companies.
If the record companies started selling music directly to customers at $1/song, they would likely make about as much as they do now.
Open source doesn't have imagination or innovation, yet is likely to put innovators out of business?
Yes. Consider worse is better to be a sort of Gresham's law for software: bad software that is given away for $0 (whether it is open source or not, actually) drives out more-innovative commercial software. People say that they value innovation, but in the end nothing beats the allure of free.
Sending a hash to a tracker only proves that the peer is in possession of a block; it doesn't prove that the peer actually sent the block to any other peer. Then a hacked peer can just tell the tracker that it uploaded 10 copies of one block instead of 1.
Do you happen to know what kind of real world performance we might see from this equipment, given the inefficiencies required to play nicely with existing 802.11 gear?
Airgo says 100 Mbps, so maybe 80 Mbps to be safe.
Also, do you know of any plans to ditch or improve the 802.11 MAC?
802.11n is overhauling the MAC.
There are some slight differences, though. Broadcom's pre-g chips were based on a near-final draft of the 802.11g standard, while 802.11n isn't even to the first draft yet.
Also, I don't think the market intrudes much into the IEEE standards process; there seems to be the same amount of arguing no matter what's going on in the outside world.
WiMax can provide high speed (50Mbps+) over long distances (tested at over 60 miles).
No, it can provide high speed or long distance, but not both at the same time. For really large sectors that will be used in rural areas, expect 10Mbps or less total throughput.
ISPs often exploit statistical multiplexing with 10:1 or higher oversubscription ratios.
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See http://www.nextgencommunications.net/wisp/2005/07
Because DRM has nothing to do with computer security. Lumping them together just causes confusion.
It doesn't require me to buy a new computer monitor, buy a new OS, buy a new graphics card, and give up various freedoms on my computer.
If they think they can strong arm me into purchasing some DRM monitor they are absolutely off their rocker.
I have a simple solution to this: watching movies on a TV, not a computer. (I feel sorry for people living in dorms, though.)
Macintosh will be the viable "store bought" rig to recommend friends and relatives purchase.
Do you think Apple can just make the AACS license requirements go away? Dream on.
What if they release Vista, and nobody bought?
As if people have a choice. If you go to a computer store in 2007, every computer will have Vista preinstalled. (Except the Macs.)
What is the compelling reason to upgrade to Vista?
It doesn't matter, since most Windows sales come from new machines.
OTOH, 2GB of RAM in 2006 will probably cost the same as 128MB did in 2000, and you'll get more eye candy for your money.
I wonder what the performance penalty is when the tool is turned off.
None. DTrace patches code when you use it, and then un-patches itself when you're done.
AACS is supposed to allow "managed copies" which will allow you to rip these discs on Vista systems. You probably won't be able to burn the copy, though.
There are other differences in the logical formats. Blu-ray has BD-J (Java) and various other interactive features, along with more DRM. One compromise that was suggested months ago was putting the HD-DVD logical format on the Blu-ray physical format (or vice versa).
A non-Apple 970 system would be twice the price of a G5. Do you still want one?