Who is trying to push morals/values/ethics on someone else now?
China - for insisting, at the barrel of a gun (to paraphrase Mao), that one way or another their subjects will NOT have access to certain material.
Americans, in objecting to Google's move, are not forcing their views... instead, we are RECOGNIZING that views are being forced, and objecting accordingly.
Tragic how often someone claims "well, that culture just chooses to be different than what you want to force on them" without realizing that the difference is precisely because their government IS forcing views on them, and the people's choice is compliance or death.
With Alito, you have a nominee who, when he admits to them, claims beliefs and attitudes that often are in opposition to his voting record. That means he's either lying to himself or to the Judiciary committee, and that provides a poor example for a Supreme Court nominee.
No, that's an excellent SCOTUS nominee: regardless of his beliefs and attitudes on a subject, a Supreme Court Justice is supposed to determine what the LAW says on a subject. Umpires can't take sides, regardless of their personal beliefs & attitudes.
Unfortunate reality is that DRM is a necessity to many companies. When a studio dumps $100,000,000 into a movie, times 100 movies a year, DRM is going to happen whether us end users like it or not. Total elimination of DRM from a movie studio is not an option; switching from Linux to Windows to keep DRM is an option for them.
As Godel noted, there is an unresolvable issue in every system. As you note, the unresolvable issue in Stallman's GPL3 is the "no DRM anywhere ever" vs. "DRM is a fact of life - cope" vs. "no OSS for you" - pushed to its logical limits, Stallman's ideology makes it untenable in the real world. Getting banned from playing in sandbox A because you play in sandbox B discourages people from playing in B... aka GPL3.
So even an unrelated Linux box used in the movies production becomes a violation. It is not just the software that contains the DRM its all GPL 3 code inside your organization that becomes a violation.
Then it's goodbye, Linux.
If your assertion is correct, then GPL3 is worse than DRM: DRM controls your use of particular content; GPL3 controls your use of completely unrelated software. Not being able to watch my DVDs on my Linux box is annoying; not being able to use any DVD player (hard- or soft-ware) because I sometimes & independently use Linux will result in me getting rid of Linux, not my DVD players. On a larger scale, a DRM-xor-GPL3 dilema for movie houses (or anyone remotely using DRM in any form) will get the GPL3 products dumped in a heartbeat - basically suicidal for Linux. Considering how DRM is defined, that some software-control technologies are vital and perfectly reasonable in some industries (mine), far more may get lumped in the "DRM" definition and knock OSS out of most commercial use. Dumb beyond words.
I always wondered about magicians picking members of the audience to come on stage to "confirm" what was happening. Couldn't tell if they were "plants" or not... until Penn Jilette picked me to go on stage to confirm their double-bullet-catch trick. While that doesn't necessarily convince anyone else that their chosen audience members are not "plants", at least I know.
Rarely does a thoroughly un-studied issue suddenly get full-blown peer-reviewed high-budget scientific treatment. Someone has to start with "huh, what's that, kinda interesting, what if I..." - the analysis is barely "scientific" at that point, and often induces scoffs from detractors, but is vital to getting interest going: the initial rough "hey that's neat" overview garners enough interest for someone to take it seriously, and iteratively develop enough interest to eventually warrant hard scientific review.
"Strange how much human accomplishment and progress comes from contemplation of the irrelevant." - Scott Kim
Which is, of course, why Blockbuster, Netflix, pay-per-view, and other business/services/technologies don't exist anymore. Er...waitaminute...
Seriously, most people only want to watch most shows/movies once; since rental is usually much cheaper than purchase, they rent (whatever the media). Sure we'd rather own, but seeing something a second time is far less important than seeing it once at low cost.
Of course, if they made ownership only slightly more expensive than rental (1.25x rather than >4x), they'd make more money, buyers would be happy, and most people would still rather see/buy something new than re-watch what they've seen.
(Do we REALLY need aliens with realistic fur that whips in the wind as they make their slow approach toward the ground?)
If high-end graphics can be done entirely in software on a reasonably current machine WITHOUT having to spend hundreds on a separate board, software sales increase significantly.
Personally, I use a notebook computer - not expandable in the graphics department. Ultraportability has priority over graphics for me. I _would_ like to play recent games, but can't because they're made specifically for XYZ UltraCoolGraphicsSuperCard - which happens to be bigger than my computer. As such, I'm stuck playing Quake III, Oni, and Daikatana - would that these recent games had a kick-butt software renderer that let them run decently on a no-hardware-acceleration graphics card.
And that's where TransGaming comes in: I am a casual gamer looking to install games onto my computer - and I don't/can't have what is currently considered a "basic 3D card" to play games on. The better the game looks, the more likely I am to buy it (hey, you have your priorities, I have mine) - IF there is a software renderer available to deliver >90% of the Gee Whiz features of a DX9-compliant card, without the card.
What casual gamers have is a computer of generating images in software and painting them on the screen at 30FPS. Beyond that, the more common 3D hardware available (i.e.: Intel Integrated Graphics) is just too inconsistent and obsolete to bother supporting fully.
I don't want a 3D card. I have no place to put it on my Sony T-series ultraportable. Give me a kick-butt software renderer and a compatable game. TransGaming is providing the renderer; what are you providing? I'll give TransGaming money for a good renderer coupled with a recent game; I won't give you money for saying "so put up with cheesy graphics already".
Do you really think they are going to waste their time trying to find out?
Yes, as it will cost around $150 to have it hauled off, and (at least around here) the police get the bill for now. Even if they don't trace the dumper, they can get the original owner. A washing machine ended up on a major freeway around here, and in that case the police DID hunt down prior owner(s).
But we digress. The point is that there IS a database of purchasers of printers, and even washing machines, linking serial numbers to owners - which is downright scary. A parent post questioned whether such databases exist, and I countered that no only do they exist for printers (potential forgery/counterfiting devices), but they exist for something as freaking mundane as washing machines.
do you really think that "they" have a database they could reference to find out what printer serial number goes to what citizen?
Yup.
Someone dropped off an old washing machine next to my company's dumpster. Since it costs a bundle to have it hauled off (like over $100), we reported it to the police - who will take the serial number, look up the original buyer, and trace ownership to whoever dumped its disposal cost on us.
Since "they" DO have a database they can reference to find out what WASHING MACHINE goes to what citizen, I wouldn't be surprised if they have the same (or better) lists of who owns which forgery/counterfiting tools.
You probably won't be able to connect your laptop to it.
Now it's making sense.
The Burger King I frequent (so long as they have $1 Whoppers) does have unsecured Wayport WiFi... but try as I might, I can't get an Internet connection thru it. Never crossed my mind that it would be only for Nintendo use.
Linus is in the rare position of creating that which pretty much defines everything else. He can pass on specs because (a) he understands the whole system so well that he intuitively knows what is correct, and (b) whatever he writes and chooses to release IS the defining component to which everything else must comply.
Specs are most needed when (a) the task is much less than perfectly understood by those involved, and (b) the result must comply with something else which may not be completely understood - realities which 99% of programmers must live with. Linus gets to be part of the 1%.
They can still sell GTA:USA cross-platform. The difference is that it all comes on one Blu-Ray disc for PS3, and 20 DVDs for XBox360 - with appropriate cost differentials for packaging.
What ever happened to Sim Thunder Storm? Considering the difficulty was in the user interface, could the rest of the design be released to allow some creative designer to complete this neat idea?
US CODE TITLE 10 > Subtitle A > PART I > CHAPTER 13 > 311
311. Militia: composition and classes
(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard. (b) The classes of the militia are-- (1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and (2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.
Are you an able-bodied male between ages 17 and 45? You're part of the militia, bucko.
Pilots don't like radios in the cabin because radio reception involves producing radio frequencies - yes, it's a small transmitter - which could interfere with vital navigation radios.
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China - for insisting, at the barrel of a gun (to paraphrase Mao), that one way or another their subjects will NOT have access to certain material.
Americans, in objecting to Google's move, are not forcing their views
Tragic how often someone claims "well, that culture just chooses to be different than what you want to force on them" without realizing that the difference is precisely because their government IS forcing views on them, and the people's choice is compliance or death.
No, that's an excellent SCOTUS nominee: regardless of his beliefs and attitudes on a subject, a Supreme Court Justice is supposed to determine what the LAW says on a subject. Umpires can't take sides, regardless of their personal beliefs & attitudes.
It's a boycott, so... ...the boycott amounts to not buying that which the boycotters would not have bought anyway.
M'kay,
Yup. 2 years, and still every time I see a Belkin product I think "no". They crossed the line, and there are other manufacturers to buy from.
Unfortunate reality is that DRM is a necessity to many companies. When a studio dumps $100,000,000 into a movie, times 100 movies a year, DRM is going to happen whether us end users like it or not. Total elimination of DRM from a movie studio is not an option; switching from Linux to Windows to keep DRM is an option for them.
... aka GPL3.
As Godel noted, there is an unresolvable issue in every system. As you note, the unresolvable issue in Stallman's GPL3 is the "no DRM anywhere ever" vs. "DRM is a fact of life - cope" vs. "no OSS for you" - pushed to its logical limits, Stallman's ideology makes it untenable in the real world. Getting banned from playing in sandbox A because you play in sandbox B discourages people from playing in B
Then it's goodbye, Linux.
If your assertion is correct, then GPL3 is worse than DRM: DRM controls your use of particular content; GPL3 controls your use of completely unrelated software. Not being able to watch my DVDs on my Linux box is annoying; not being able to use any DVD player (hard- or soft-ware) because I sometimes & independently use Linux will result in me getting rid of Linux, not my DVD players. On a larger scale, a DRM-xor-GPL3 dilema for movie houses (or anyone remotely using DRM in any form) will get the GPL3 products dumped in a heartbeat - basically suicidal for Linux. Considering how DRM is defined, that some software-control technologies are vital and perfectly reasonable in some industries (mine), far more may get lumped in the "DRM" definition and knock OSS out of most commercial use. Dumb beyond words.
I always wondered about magicians picking members of the audience to come on stage to "confirm" what was happening. Couldn't tell if they were "plants" or not ... until Penn Jilette picked me to go on stage to confirm their double-bullet-catch trick. While that doesn't necessarily convince anyone else that their chosen audience members are not "plants", at least I know.
Rarely does a thoroughly un-studied issue suddenly get full-blown peer-reviewed high-budget scientific treatment. Someone has to start with "huh, what's that, kinda interesting, what if I..." - the analysis is barely "scientific" at that point, and often induces scoffs from detractors, but is vital to getting interest going: the initial rough "hey that's neat" overview garners enough interest for someone to take it seriously, and iteratively develop enough interest to eventually warrant hard scientific review.
"Strange how much human accomplishment and progress comes from contemplation of the irrelevant."
- Scott Kim
Agreed. Note that San Francisco solves only 20% of murders.
Significantly older VCRs are immune to Macrovision.
We don't want to rent. We want to own.
Which is, of course, why Blockbuster, Netflix, pay-per-view, and other business/services/technologies don't exist anymore. Er...waitaminute...
Seriously, most people only want to watch most shows/movies once; since rental is usually much cheaper than purchase, they rent (whatever the media). Sure we'd rather own, but seeing something a second time is far less important than seeing it once at low cost.
Of course, if they made ownership only slightly more expensive than rental (1.25x rather than >4x), they'd make more money, buyers would be happy, and most people would still rather see/buy something new than re-watch what they've seen.
Yes, there are open chipsets. See www.opencores.org.
They don't have to crack the hard drive in 90 days.
They just have to crack YOU in 90 days.
[clap][clap][clap] One of the best-at-all-levels responses ever!
Actually: you should submit that to IOCCC next year!
Yup ... we're livin' in the naughties!
Which character do you think the politicians are more similar to?
Hmmm?
Now do you understand why they want to ban the game?
(Do we REALLY need aliens with realistic fur that whips in the wind as they make their slow approach toward the ground?)
If high-end graphics can be done entirely in software on a reasonably current machine WITHOUT having to spend hundreds on a separate board, software sales increase significantly.
Personally, I use a notebook computer - not expandable in the graphics department. Ultraportability has priority over graphics for me. I _would_ like to play recent games, but can't because they're made specifically for XYZ UltraCoolGraphicsSuperCard - which happens to be bigger than my computer. As such, I'm stuck playing Quake III, Oni, and Daikatana - would that these recent games had a kick-butt software renderer that let them run decently on a no-hardware-acceleration graphics card.
And that's where TransGaming comes in: I am a casual gamer looking to install games onto my computer - and I don't/can't have what is currently considered a "basic 3D card" to play games on. The better the game looks, the more likely I am to buy it (hey, you have your priorities, I have mine) - IF there is a software renderer available to deliver >90% of the Gee Whiz features of a DX9-compliant card, without the card.
What casual gamers have is a computer of generating images in software and painting them on the screen at 30FPS. Beyond that, the more common 3D hardware available (i.e.: Intel Integrated Graphics) is just too inconsistent and obsolete to bother supporting fully.
I don't want a 3D card. I have no place to put it on my Sony T-series ultraportable. Give me a kick-butt software renderer and a compatable game. TransGaming is providing the renderer; what are you providing? I'll give TransGaming money for a good renderer coupled with a recent game; I won't give you money for saying "so put up with cheesy graphics already".
Do you really think they are going to waste their time trying to find out?
Yes, as it will cost around $150 to have it hauled off, and (at least around here) the police get the bill for now. Even if they don't trace the dumper, they can get the original owner. A washing machine ended up on a major freeway around here, and in that case the police DID hunt down prior owner(s).
But we digress. The point is that there IS a database of purchasers of printers, and even washing machines, linking serial numbers to owners - which is downright scary. A parent post questioned whether such databases exist, and I countered that no only do they exist for printers (potential forgery/counterfiting devices), but they exist for something as freaking mundane as washing machines.
do you really think that "they" have a database they could reference to find out what printer serial number goes to what citizen?
Yup.
Someone dropped off an old washing machine next to my company's dumpster. Since it costs a bundle to have it hauled off (like over $100), we reported it to the police - who will take the serial number, look up the original buyer, and trace ownership to whoever dumped its disposal cost on us.
Since "they" DO have a database they can reference to find out what WASHING MACHINE goes to what citizen, I wouldn't be surprised if they have the same (or better) lists of who owns which forgery/counterfiting tools.
Lesson: yes, they know. Pay cash.
You probably won't be able to connect your laptop to it.
... but try as I might, I can't get an Internet connection thru it. Never crossed my mind that it would be only for Nintendo use.
Now it's making sense.
The Burger King I frequent (so long as they have $1 Whoppers) does have unsecured Wayport WiFi
Linus is in the rare position of creating that which pretty much defines everything else. He can pass on specs because (a) he understands the whole system so well that he intuitively knows what is correct, and (b) whatever he writes and chooses to release IS the defining component to which everything else must comply.
Specs are most needed when (a) the task is much less than perfectly understood by those involved, and (b) the result must comply with something else which may not be completely understood - realities which 99% of programmers must live with. Linus gets to be part of the 1%.
They can still sell GTA:USA cross-platform.
The difference is that it all comes on one Blu-Ray disc for PS3, and 20 DVDs for XBox360 - with appropriate cost differentials for packaging.
What ever happened to Sim Thunder Storm? Considering the difficulty was in the user interface, could the rest of the design be released to allow some creative designer to complete this neat idea?
Are you an able-bodied male between ages 17 and 45? You're part of the militia, bucko.
Pilots don't like radios in the cabin because radio reception involves producing radio frequencies - yes, it's a small transmitter - which could interfere with vital navigation radios.