Do they want to put the DAC, the amp, and all the requisite power supplies into the speaker cabinet?
Yes. In fact, except for the DAC, this is the way computer speakers are already built. In my Cambridge Soundworks stuff everything's in the subwoofer.
Are they planning on using some kind of macrovision-esque noise between the DAC and the amp?
They're planning on fully encrypting the audio stream, with decryption between the DAC and the amp.
Even if they did, I could *still* take the speaker cabinet apart and rewire the speaker outputs from the amp, and record it that way.
I know, the whole thing is silly. Every two bit geek in the world will have a $20 set of cheap speakers converted into a dedicated decryption box in about 10 minutes flat.
And as I point out above, it only takes one geek to put the end result up on a file sharing network for the entire world to grab without having to do anything.
They seem to have the idea that you won't be happy with that because you'll be doing a DADC.
They don't seem to realize that back in the day I held a cheap, lapel dynamic mic up to the speaker of a pocket transistor radio and recorded it to my cheap 1/4" tape recorder; and I was happy.
Oh, I went out and bought Bitch's Brew (twice) and the White Album (thrice). If you make stuff worth money people will. ..buy it! Because it's worth it. But the above made me perfectly happy with Yummy, Yummy, Yummy the three times I actually listened to it. If you produce throw away fluff people will "steal" it at very low quality, listen to it a few times, and then throw it away, rather than throw away perfectly good money for the shit.
Ya know that they're talking about closing the audio "analog hole" by moving the D/A conversion, and thus the decryption, out to the speakers themselves?
Not that there aren't so many unchipped speakers out there in the world already that most of them are already gathering dust in closests, and not that you couldn't intercept the signal between the chip and the cone quite easily, but . . .
This is the way they're thinking. Chip everything.
I assume they know that it won't really work, because a dedicated geek will get the content unencrypted somehow anyway, but that it will knock out the casual copier.
Won't I'm not sure they grasp is that in the Internet world most people don't do their own copying and that it only takes one dedicated geek to crack the shit and spread it to the world.
The writers of Max Headroom and I grew up in a world where it was illegal to turn off your telephone bell (you did not own the phone, you leased it, and turning off the bell required opening the case and making a physical modification).
As a practitioner of random acts of kindness I understand where you are coming from with the sentiment. On the other hand I know where ScrewMaster is coming from as well.
With someone looking out for their own enlightened selfinterest you know the rules. You can talk. You can negotiate win/win situations. If something goes bad and you get screwed you can still talk and negotiate to figure out why and what can be done about it.
There is no talking to someone being "kind" for "your own good." These people are likely to leave you broken and bleeding on the ground and walk away with a warm fuzzy feeling about it and a selfcongratulatory smile on their faces.
And promoting true kindness is an act of enlightened selfinterest.
Try to speak in a language your audience will understand. I don't even own a pair of eyeglasses or a roll of surgical tape.
The principle content of "Scene" and "Lifestyle" sections are ads, for restaurants, real estate developments, spas and the like, disguised as news items. Courting "Lifestyle" pieces is a major part of local marketing.
Increased time on the job does not innately translate into increased productivity.
The idea that it does is the single greatest idiocy of the modern business age, producing such braindead corollaries as thinking that saving half a second per mouse click actually means you spend 2 more minutes a day doing productive work.
Human productivity is entirely dependant on human factors, not machine factors, and humans are notoriously variable, even chaotic, in their behavior.
At best they get tired, at worst they have this shit called "feelings."
Read your employment contract. It is becoming increasingly common that they do.
Hell, even before the ubiquitously wired age I once lost an instore commission sales job because I didn't spend my time off the clock just sitting by the landline waiting for them to call me in to fill in for somebody.
Or course I thanked them profusely for letting me go. . .
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... and then we can reverse time!
And all we have to do is violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
So get working on that perpetual motion machine, you're going to need it even more than a Mr. Fusion.
KFG
Go ride your bike off a cliff FAG!!!
mxs reading on the ol' bike computer today, 38.5 mph. Still only in early season shape and couldn't manage to break 40.
But yeah, I'd imagine going downhill I could mangage to go a bit faster. I'll have to give a try.
Thanks for the advice.
KFG
Do they want to put the DAC, the amp, and all the requisite power supplies into the speaker cabinet?
.buy it! Because it's worth it. But the above made me perfectly happy with Yummy, Yummy, Yummy the three times I actually listened to it. If you produce throw away fluff people will "steal" it at very low quality, listen to it a few times, and then throw it away, rather than throw away perfectly good money for the shit.
Yes. In fact, except for the DAC, this is the way computer speakers are already built. In my Cambridge Soundworks stuff everything's in the subwoofer.
Are they planning on using some kind of macrovision-esque noise between the DAC and the amp?
They're planning on fully encrypting the audio stream, with decryption between the DAC and the amp.
Even if they did, I could *still* take the speaker cabinet apart and rewire the speaker outputs from the amp, and record it that way.
I know, the whole thing is silly. Every two bit geek in the world will have a $20 set of cheap speakers converted into a dedicated decryption box in about 10 minutes flat.
And as I point out above, it only takes one geek to put the end result up on a file sharing network for the entire world to grab without having to do anything.
They seem to have the idea that you won't be happy with that because you'll be doing a DADC.
They don't seem to realize that back in the day I held a cheap, lapel dynamic mic up to the speaker of a pocket transistor radio and recorded it to my cheap 1/4" tape recorder; and I was happy.
Oh, I went out and bought Bitch's Brew (twice) and the White Album (thrice). If you make stuff worth money people will. .
KFG
The BIOS is where the DRM will reside.
At first.
Ya know that they're talking about closing the audio "analog hole" by moving the D/A conversion, and thus the decryption, out to the speakers themselves?
Not that there aren't so many unchipped speakers out there in the world already that most of them are already gathering dust in closests, and not that you couldn't intercept the signal between the chip and the cone quite easily, but . . .
This is the way they're thinking. Chip everything.
I assume they know that it won't really work, because a dedicated geek will get the content unencrypted somehow anyway, but that it will knock out the casual copier.
Won't I'm not sure they grasp is that in the Internet world most people don't do their own copying and that it only takes one dedicated geek to crack the shit and spread it to the world.
KFG
He doesn't claim to have invented or developed them, he claims to have *pressured Intel into adopting them*
Indeed, and just because the dog drags the owner about by the leash a bit doesn't mean he's not still the dog.
One good tug on the choke chain'll bring 'im up short.
KFG
Francis Bacon was the first to propose that each fact was related to all other information by 6 degrees or less.
Sure, but it took Kevin to make it popular.
And he is one of the most famous intellectuals that shares a name with strips of cured pork.
Sure, but Roger did it first, and it took Xerox PORK to make practical.
KFG
So, just to clear things up, people do know that relational DB's aren't about "relationships" between data
No, they don't.
KFG
The writers of Max Headroom and I grew up in a world where it was illegal to turn off your telephone bell (you did not own the phone, you leased it, and turning off the bell required opening the case and making a physical modification).
Plus la change, plus la meme chose, ay?
KFG
What exactly does "Cannot be avoided" mean?
Your bathroom, fridge and microwave, each with their own ip, will autolock their doors whenever the commercials come on.
Oh, yeah, your fridge will also autoorder everything adverstised on your credit card, for "your convenience."
Welcome to the future, brother. Enjoy.
KFG
Yes.
KFG
You can buy algorithms?
Yeah, but real geeks win them in gameplay.
KFG
I've always wondered what was actually under all that blue paint on the TARDIS.
KFG
You don't suppose they'd be interested in my suite of APL, command line card games, do you?
Or are those just soooooooo 1976? Well, I had to do something geeky to celebrate the bicentenial.
KFG
Ah, well, Vista is a special case. It's not merely fat, it's also got an extra chromosone or five.
KFG
No, because fat people become experts at not moving.
KFG
What's big and red and eats rocks?
KFG
As a practitioner of random acts of kindness I understand where you are coming from with the sentiment. On the other hand I know where ScrewMaster is coming from as well.
With someone looking out for their own enlightened selfinterest you know the rules. You can talk. You can negotiate win/win situations. If something goes bad and you get screwed you can still talk and negotiate to figure out why and what can be done about it.
There is no talking to someone being "kind" for "your own good." These people are likely to leave you broken and bleeding on the ground and walk away with a warm fuzzy feeling about it and a selfcongratulatory smile on their faces.
And promoting true kindness is an act of enlightened selfinterest.
KFG
I was referring to the word "slashvertisements"
:)
That part I understood. I thought you were just making a crack about applying a nerd word to something outside the nerd domain space.
"Truth immured in one nerd word"
Ahhhhhhhhh! Well, why didn't you say so?
KFG
Truth lured in one word -- Nerd.
Try to speak in a language your audience will understand. I don't even own a pair of eyeglasses or a roll of surgical tape.
The principle content of "Scene" and "Lifestyle" sections are ads, for restaurants, real estate developments, spas and the like, disguised as news items. Courting "Lifestyle" pieces is a major part of local marketing.
KFG
Copy editors write the headlines
I've got a few of those among my family and friends.
One of them lost his job over "32 Scoot to Shoot with Plane Aflame."
I'm afraid I wasn't terribly sympathetic.
KFG
Used to be to start a fire you took two sticks of about the same size and .....
then went looking for someone who actually knew how to start a fire, with two appropriately different sized sticks.
KFG
(What the hell does one find in a "Scene" or "Lifestyle" section anyway?)
Slashvertisements.
KFG
Increased time on the job does not innately translate into increased productivity.
The idea that it does is the single greatest idiocy of the modern business age, producing such braindead corollaries as thinking that saving half a second per mouse click actually means you spend 2 more minutes a day doing productive work.
Human productivity is entirely dependant on human factors, not machine factors, and humans are notoriously variable, even chaotic, in their behavior.
At best they get tired, at worst they have this shit called "feelings."
KFG
Read your employment contract. It is becoming increasingly common that they do.
Hell, even before the ubiquitously wired age I once lost an instore commission sales job because I didn't spend my time off the clock just sitting by the landline waiting for them to call me in to fill in for somebody.
Or course I thanked them profusely for letting me go. . .
KFG
On the other hand, depending on your gaming politics, some of the mistakes are deliciously ironic. Take the very first sentence as an example:
"Like many of you, it's hard for me to remember a time when the word "Playstation" was synonymous with gaming."
KFG