1. they keep paying legislators to change the copyright rules in their favor, extending copyright from (approx., from memory) 17 + 17 years, to lifetime + 90 years. It's not an existing economic system, it's a system they are evolving for their advantage. We can barely envision the original rules at this point.
2. New technology that could not even be envisioned when the rules were created now allows makers to claim the right to charge you whenever you think about using their product (OK, I'm exagerating a bit, but not much). They want to enforce not only rules against sharing with others and against what has been heretofore considered fair use, but against sharing with yourself. I am not exagerating - they are claiming that despite the ability to use peer networks to share your goods with yourself, those networks should be illegal. They are crafting technologies that prevent use across different device types or different serial number devices.
They are playing unfair and then claiming they are being robbed.
It has a little screen on it's tiny body that lets you *play* the video that it records. So that you can view last night's shows on the train to work the next day, for example. Can't do that with a tivo. Or with a pod thingy. And no DRM (at least not on the older Archos gadgets).
Actually, the Air Force needed to limit the amount of information to prevent conflict with anti-information. They discovered (information) + (anti-information)= (spin)C**2
Information plus anti-information results in catastrophically successful amounts of info-spin, meaning the end of life as we know it.
Yes, so at 800C degrees (or something) it is diamond hard and getting harder. Now THAT is interesting and and can lead to all kinds of rumination. If you can mix heat-shielding material into it, you can expose it to intense heat on the outside where it gets hard, while the cooler inside remains more flexible and provides structural support as the whole thing flexes, like in the space shuttle. This is the stuff that sci-fi stories are built around. Need a few hours, a few beers, and a few friends to flush out a few angles. Of course this whole property is interesting; as said before, it's a shame that the property wears off so soon, at so cold a temperature.
Find out what they know already (ask them), and build on it at the level they can handle. Explain how the computers they use are connected on the Internet, and what makes up the Internet. Explain that thousands of organizations have their own "mini-internets", that connect to the internet and also to all the computers within the organizations. Explain what those computers are, what they do, how they are different from the computers that most kids know about, and how there are other things on the network besides computers too. And then explain that IT designs it, builds it, makes it run, fixes it when it breaks, and upgrades it as it goes along.
That means the possibility of a Jurassic Park program with extinct lineages of people. Riding mammoths, harrassing the brontosauri, and munching fried trilobites...
Precisely. The fact that the controllers are making huge profits does not mean that a fair or even any percentage of those profits are being shared with the content creators. This has been one of the oft-quoted reasons or justifications for p2p sharing - my $18.00 towards the CD means little or nothing to the unfortunately locked-in contract signees, so why fatten the profiteers? Check out Courtney Love's (google) screeds on the way the industry does business and how all but the biggest names often end up owing money to their handlers even after big sales are racked up.
The handlers are not hurting, they are using their position to hurt AMAP, maximize control and profits.
No, it's not that critics are stupidly critical. If you can easily point out the plot flaws, then the people who wrote the movie did not work hard enough - they messed up. It should be possible to write this movie with the kind of explanations that satisfy your audience, or leave out the explanations altogether if you can't do that. Or something. But just like a poet who rhymes love with above, June with spoon, or some such cliche, you're not working hard enough if you can't find a plot device that isn't easily picked apart. Don't explain the fusion thing with a lame tritium reference if you don't know what tritium is or how it works in fusion or what it looks like. Star Trek invented dilitium crystals, whatever that is; they just go into warp drive, they don't bother to explain the relativistic effects much, they just work around them. Bottom line, lame plot mistakes, lazy writers or continuity staff.
Over 20 years ago I had come in on a Sunday to re-cable a bank of hard drives in a main data center of a very large retail chain. After finishing, putting back all the floor tiles and before rebooting the mainframes, I decided to run the I/O checkout utility, something I had done many times before. I noticed that we had a new version of this utility, and after starting it, I noticed that all the ready lites on the hard drive banks were blinking like mad, and all the CRT monitors were were scrolling garbage down their screens and blinking like crazy. "Gee, it's never done that before", I thought. So I opened the new manual to see what was new about it, and step 3 said "WARNING: IF YOU ARE NOT IN MAINTENANCE MODE THIS UTILITY WILL WRITE AND READ THROUGHOUT THE DATA AREAS OF ALL ATTACHED DASD DEVICES. ENSURE YOU ARE IN MAINTENANCE MODE." I took me 30 more minutes to find the section of the manual explaining maintenance mode. By then I was convinced that I had wiped out all the drive packs and ruined the data center. I did not end up deleting anything (the ulitiy was better written than the manual), but I was sick for the next 3 days recovering from the shock of what I thought I had done.
...voice. The telephone. That's a quote of Jeff Hawkins', and I've got to believe that it's borne out by the numbers. Hundreds of millions of cellphones are sold every year, and only in the neighborhood of 100 million PDAs have been sold in total to date. Then by inference it follows that a killer PDA, one that most people will want to use, should have a phone built into it. And it also appears that the market for devices without a phone has flattened, and manufacturers are turning to PDAs with phones in them, and away from PDAs without phones in them.
The Star* dudes learned to roast coffee with Alfred Peet in Berkeley. No lie. They left to conquer the world with Al's blessing. I say this in walking distance from the first church of Peets on Walnut and Vine in Berkeley, where you can buy the best made cup of brew to blast through those 10 years of chain-smoking Gauloise's and actually taste the coffee. Drink up.
"molecular-sized" computers that can detect and eradicate cancer cells....
(queue up the snare drum:) I might try to wait for the first fix pack. (bang!) And I hope it has passive cooling - those fans can be painful. (ka-boom)
And what about DRM? Will the drug companies continue to own the product so that sharing bodily fluids is punishable under the copyright act?
There is so much that medicine has to learn from our industry!!
Yes, the moon is huge, or HUGE if it makes your point. And there are so many buffalo you could never kill them all. The oceans are so big you could never (a) catch all the fish, or (b) pollute them so it made a difference. Bioengineered plants could never spread their genes. Radioactive by-products are easy to manage and are harmless anyway. Etc. Your point, that it doesn't really matter what we do whereever we go, has been made before and it's repeatedly been proven wrong. And you're arguing that we should be allowed to make a mess simply because we CAN, not for any reasonable reason? I would like to argue that interplanetary garbage dumping should be prohibited or licensed to an arbitrated common benefit. I would like to, if I could trust my government to regulate it.
Why is this headlined under Tech/IT - it's the best gaming news in weeks. We get spinoff of the military's efforts to accurately model a huge gaming environment. CP World.
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It entitles us to free technology. How we use it is prosecutable or not.
It's not that simple.
1. they keep paying legislators to change the copyright rules in their favor, extending copyright from (approx., from memory) 17 + 17 years, to lifetime + 90 years. It's not an existing economic system, it's a system they are evolving for their advantage. We can barely envision the original rules at this point.
2. New technology that could not even be envisioned when the rules were created now allows makers to claim the right to charge you whenever you think about using their product (OK, I'm exagerating a bit, but not much). They want to enforce not only rules against sharing with others and against what has been heretofore considered fair use, but against sharing with yourself. I am not exagerating - they are claiming that despite the ability to use peer networks to share your goods with yourself, those networks should be illegal. They are crafting technologies that prevent use across different device types or different serial number devices.
They are playing unfair and then claiming they are being robbed.
It has a little screen on it's tiny body that lets you *play* the video that it records. So that you can view last night's shows on the train to work the next day, for example.
Can't do that with a tivo. Or with a pod thingy.
And no DRM (at least not on the older Archos gadgets).
Actually, the Air Force needed to limit the amount of information to prevent conflict with anti-information. They discovered (information) + (anti-information)= (spin)C**2
Information plus anti-information results in catastrophically successful amounts of info-spin, meaning the end of life as we know it.
Forget the moon. You could get over 12,000,000 music CDs if you picked from the bargain bin.
Yes, so at 800C degrees (or something) it is diamond hard and getting harder. Now THAT is interesting and and can lead to all kinds of rumination. If you can mix heat-shielding material into it, you can expose it to intense heat on the outside where it gets hard, while the cooler inside remains more flexible and provides structural support as the whole thing flexes, like in the space shuttle.
This is the stuff that sci-fi stories are built around. Need a few hours, a few beers, and a few friends to flush out a few angles.
Of course this whole property is interesting; as said before, it's a shame that the property wears off so soon, at so cold a temperature.
Find out what they know already (ask them), and build on it at the level they can handle.
Explain how the computers they use are connected on the Internet, and what makes up the Internet. Explain that thousands of organizations have their own "mini-internets", that connect to the internet and also to all the computers within the organizations. Explain what those computers are, what they do, how they are different from the computers that most kids know about, and how there are other things on the network besides computers too. And then explain that IT designs it, builds it, makes it run, fixes it when it breaks, and upgrades it as it goes along.
Whose $20M is he donating?
>And why single out gun deaths?
Because we're discussing the disadvantages of keeping guns around, not the disadvantages of dying. Please pay attention and stay on topic.
That means the possibility of a Jurassic Park program with extinct lineages of people.
Riding mammoths, harrassing the brontosauri, and munching fried trilobites...
Precisely.
The fact that the controllers are making huge profits does not mean that a fair or even any percentage of those profits are being shared with the content creators. This has been one of the oft-quoted reasons or justifications for p2p sharing - my $18.00 towards the CD means little or nothing to the unfortunately locked-in contract signees, so why fatten the profiteers?
Check out Courtney Love's (google) screeds on the way the industry does business and how all but the biggest names often end up owing money to their handlers even after big sales are racked up.
The handlers are not hurting, they are using their position to hurt AMAP, maximize control and profits.
Go America.
"they are unable to accurately perform tasks involving quantities as few as four or five"
Neither can my co-workers.
Eliminate the power-hungry tape drives in camcorders and you have a slimmer, more efficient, better device. If only it would be here in time for xmas.
Put it in a PDA and everything you can carry is potentially an ipod killer.
Not script kiddies - there's no script involved.
Biohackers are spit kiddies.
No, it's not that critics are stupidly critical.
If you can easily point out the plot flaws, then the people who wrote the movie did not work hard enough - they messed up.
It should be possible to write this movie with the kind of explanations that satisfy your audience, or leave out the explanations altogether if you can't do that. Or something. But just like a poet who rhymes love with above, June with spoon, or some such cliche, you're not working hard enough if you can't find a plot device that isn't easily picked apart. Don't explain the fusion thing with a lame tritium reference if you don't know what tritium is or how it works in fusion or what it looks like. Star Trek invented dilitium crystals, whatever that is; they just go into warp drive, they don't bother to explain the relativistic effects much, they just work around them.
Bottom line, lame plot mistakes, lazy writers or continuity staff.
Over 20 years ago I had come in on a Sunday to re-cable a bank of hard drives in a main data center of a very large retail chain. After finishing, putting back all the floor tiles and before rebooting the mainframes, I decided to run the I/O checkout utility, something I had done many times before. I noticed that we had a new version of this utility, and after starting it, I noticed that all the ready lites on the hard drive banks were blinking like mad, and all the CRT monitors were were scrolling garbage down their screens and blinking like crazy. "Gee, it's never done that before", I thought. So I opened the new manual to see what was new about it, and step 3 said "WARNING: IF YOU ARE NOT IN MAINTENANCE MODE THIS UTILITY WILL WRITE AND READ THROUGHOUT THE DATA AREAS OF ALL ATTACHED DASD DEVICES. ENSURE YOU ARE IN MAINTENANCE MODE." I took me 30 more minutes to find the section of the manual explaining maintenance mode. By then I was convinced that I had wiped out all the drive packs and ruined the data center. I did not end up deleting anything (the ulitiy was better written than the manual), but I was sick for the next 3 days recovering from the shock of what I thought I had done.
I though Windows Mobile was the first cellphone virus.
...voice. The telephone.
That's a quote of Jeff Hawkins', and I've got to believe that it's borne out by the numbers.
Hundreds of millions of cellphones are sold every year, and only in the neighborhood of 100 million PDAs have been sold in total to date.
Then by inference it follows that a killer PDA, one that most people will want to use, should have a phone built into it. And it also appears that the market for devices without a phone has flattened, and manufacturers are turning to PDAs with phones in them, and away from PDAs without phones in them.
The Star* dudes learned to roast coffee with Alfred Peet in Berkeley. No lie. They left to conquer the world with Al's blessing.
I say this in walking distance from the first church of Peets on Walnut and Vine in Berkeley, where you can buy the best made cup of brew to blast through those 10 years of chain-smoking Gauloise's and actually taste the coffee.
Drink up.
"molecular-sized" computers that can detect and eradicate cancer cells....
(queue up the snare drum:)
I might try to wait for the first fix pack. (bang!)
And I hope it has passive cooling - those fans can be painful. (ka-boom)
And what about DRM? Will the drug companies continue to own the product so that sharing bodily fluids is punishable under the copyright act?
There is so much that medicine has to learn from our industry!!
>"...giving them the accurate location of their child."
Actually, it will give them the location of the wristband.
This mission will prove that gravity is the opposite of comedy.
So will the series be called "Freedom Games"? Que ironie.
Yes, the moon is huge, or HUGE if it makes your point.
And there are so many buffalo you could never kill them all.
The oceans are so big you could never (a) catch all the fish, or (b) pollute them so it made a difference.
Bioengineered plants could never spread their genes. Radioactive by-products are easy to manage and are harmless anyway.
Etc.
Your point, that it doesn't really matter what we do whereever we go, has been made before and it's repeatedly been proven wrong. And you're arguing that we should be allowed to make a mess simply because we CAN, not for any reasonable reason?
I would like to argue that interplanetary garbage dumping should be prohibited or licensed to an arbitrated common benefit. I would like to, if I could trust my government to regulate it.
Why is this headlined under Tech/IT - it's the best gaming news in weeks. We get spinoff of the military's efforts to accurately model a huge gaming environment. CP World.