Fair point, but what about on the state level? Since a lot of the aspects pointed out in the submission are actually run on the state level, rather than the federal level, surely we should at least see some of the larger states doing something? Are there any states that have looked towards doing this, or are doing this? The least the federal government could do is provide the necessary links to the state websites. Currently if I type www.gov.us I get nothing This, IMO, would certainly be a great entry point to the network?
Given that one of the so-called anti-piracy systems has been bypassed, according to this link, I wonder why the companies even bother. Also, these work-arounds are more likely to be used by bona fid pirates than someone unhappy that they have a CD they can't make their MP3s from ( yes, I know its a generalization, but the general point remains ).
With MacOS X you can, though I had to hunt around a few Linux sites before I found the answer. Basically you first have to remove the admin password and then use tftp as normal and then replace the admin password once the firmware upgrade has been done ( this worked for me ). The same approach can be used for pre-MacOS X machines if you find yourself a tftp client for the OS.
If the demos are anything to go by then it almost appears to be a mix of second person shooter and first person shooter. Also, Halo seems to be far more than a first person shooter, since strategy is actually involved. There is a goal to aim for and team work involved. Of course I will wait for the Mac or PC version before I make my final choice ( I will be buying a GameCube, rather than an X-Box ).
Apple is also trying to get the Firewire market moving. if enough people are interested in the advantages of IEEE1394 then we should see more PC manufacturers including the necessary connectors on their motherboards. Having two connectors would a) take more room and b) not encourage people to take advantage of Firewire.
Apple is basically trying to do for MP3 players what the iMac did for computers - make them appealing to the non-techie.
It will work on other platforms, but you won't get any help from Apple. What you need is some utility that supports the HFS+ format, a Firewire card and the drivers to go with it. Now all you have to do is mount the drive and copy the files using the expected directory layout.
I have mentioned this before, but I feel strongly that the.us domain needs to provide the common TLDs at the US level, so people use it instead of being intemidated by the extra long addresses.
I would love to see.com.us,.org.us,.edu.us,.gov.us and.mil.us. BTW the three letters are important ino order to make the distinction between the states that all use two letters. This is probably a pipe-dream, but here's hoping:)
I can wait for the release on the Mac/PC. If I buy a console it will be a GameCube as the sort of games that come out on that platform don't generally come out on the PC. The XBox on the other hand will probably be compared most to a PC than a console, especially since I have a feeling that the games will be of similar quality. Of course time will be the ultimate judge and I will find out after 6 months of the XBox being on the shelf whether my current judgment is fair.
... but surely that would make you the person they would like to check the most. Heck, even security gaurds need something to make the day more interesting:)
Not all PPC based computer are made by Apple. The PPC is a good chip and runs quite happily in the RS/6000, the GameCube ( not really a Linux candidate though ) and other unnamed machines.
If this got through then in theory a hacker could create their own 'tune', copyright it and let it wander the net. Then after a couple of months claim that the reason they were breaking into the FBI computer was to check that they didn't have any illegal copies of your MP3.
Maybe what is needed is for the extensions to be open, at least in the way of their API. That way as a new feature is added by on company it becomes an extension registered with some body and then work would be performed by the community to ensure that is available for implementation by any other of the card manufacturers. I can imagine that this would lead to a case where we would be talking OGL + extension collection 1, etc. At least this way the time for implementation should be reduced.
I'm surprised that it is being hosted by Sorenson when most of the Quicktime trailers are usually hosted at akamai.net and the later usually fairs bit better.
For those of you, who like me have no idea what PHB means ( I do now ) :
PHB/P-H-B/
[Usenet; common; rarely spoken] Abbreviation, "Pointy-Haired Boss". From the Dilbert character, the archetypal halfwitted middle-management type. See also pointy-haired.
Maybe we need to reserve get the association to allocate a number of address for non plug and play devices, so that the hobbyists can develop their own USB devices?
One advantage of USB is that it is designed for 'dumb' devices that don't do much work and thus cheap to implement. For these sort of devices the master-slave approach works well. As the connected devices become 'smarter' then there is a great need for FireWire to interconnect the devices.
BTW, don't the 3Gb transfer rates depend on an optical connection?
It should also be mentioned that your average non-techie computer user is likely to feel more comfortable plugging in cable than a card. As the computer becomes a comodity item, then more and more of your stuff will be plugging in from the outside, unless you are a techie and then you will insist on putting everything inside because it takes less room and because there are less wires.
If I could get a computer with the form factor of a Sun Classic and stackable HDs using the same form factor, using a simple bus extender, then I would go for it.
Fear is an important factor in all this. For example in WWII Germans who were against Hitler and his whole regime were sent to the conentration camps. When you know the consenquences of admitting your stand you end up keeping very quiet. In Afganistan there is a similar situation, where people are too scared to openly act against the Taliban. There are 'underground' schools and everything, but there would be a price to pay if the Taliban ever found out.
It should also be pointed out that these people do not have access to the weapons and the money that the Taliban has access to. For this reason they probably feel that it is almost better to stay alive than to do anything against the Taliban.
The people who would love to get rid of Osma Ben Laden are not in power and don't have the leverage necessary to reveal his location.
Another point is how do you target someone hiding out in a network of underground caves and where all the houses look the same?
I'm sure that someone will come up with a digital 'bridge' that will filter the packets and change the 'copy protect' status to 'copy ok'. Its only a matter of time.
Since I have a portable MP3 player, I have put all my CDs in a cupboard and for the rest of the time I use my computer to listen to them. The extra advantage is the ability to put them into random play and I no longer get fed up with the tunes, which tends to happen if you play the same CD over and over because you can't be bothered to take the CD out;)
If I were confronted with a copy protected CD I would take it back, citing that it is incompatible with my main play-back device - luckily I haven't had to do that yet.
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Fair point, but what about on the state level? Since a lot of the aspects pointed out in the submission are actually run on the state level, rather than the federal level, surely we should at least see some of the larger states doing something? Are there any states that have looked towards doing this, or are doing this? The least the federal government could do is provide the necessary links to the state websites. Currently if I type www.gov.us I get nothing This, IMO, would certainly be a great entry point to the network?
Given that one of the so-called anti-piracy systems has been bypassed, according to this link, I wonder why the companies even bother. Also, these work-arounds are more likely to be used by bona fid pirates than someone unhappy that they have a CD they can't make their MP3s from ( yes, I know its a generalization, but the general point remains ).
I must admit I forgot Byte even is existed. Since the paper edition stopped being printed I haven't really bothered checking the on-line edition.
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I know this is off-topic, but I have too many karma points and I just need to air my view
At least with a PC you get the warm feeling that you paied even more to play pong. All those cycles to waste :)
With MacOS X you can, though I had to hunt around a few Linux sites before I found the answer. Basically you first have to remove the admin password and then use tftp as normal and then replace the admin password once the firmware upgrade has been done ( this worked for me ). The same approach can be used for pre-MacOS X machines if you find yourself a tftp client for the OS.
If the demos are anything to go by then it almost appears to be a mix of second person shooter and first person shooter. Also, Halo seems to be far more than a first person shooter, since strategy is actually involved. There is a goal to aim for and team work involved. Of course I will wait for the Mac or PC version before I make my final choice ( I will be buying a GameCube, rather than an X-Box ).
Or you could have Kotex Aerospace giving a new meaning to orbital insertion.
Apple is basically trying to do for MP3 players what the iMac did for computers - make them appealing to the non-techie.
It will work on other platforms, but you won't get any help from Apple. What you need is some utility that supports the HFS+ format, a Firewire card and the drivers to go with it. Now all you have to do is mount the drive and copy the files using the expected directory layout.
Maybe they were right with the initial theory and someone simply forgot to take the lense cap off - doh!
I have mentioned this before, but I feel strongly that the .us domain needs to provide the common TLDs at the US level, so people use it instead of being intemidated by the extra long addresses.
.com.us, .org.us, .edu.us, .gov.us and .mil.us. BTW the three letters are important ino order to make the distinction between the states that all use two letters. This is probably a pipe-dream, but here's hoping :)
I would love to see
Hmm, I thought Microsoft had taken Monopoly out of Word's dictionary as well? Heck, there is no such thing as Monopoly ;)
I can wait for the release on the Mac/PC. If I buy a console it will be a GameCube as the sort of games that come out on that platform don't generally come out on the PC. The XBox on the other hand will probably be compared most to a PC than a console, especially since I have a feeling that the games will be of similar quality. Of course time will be the ultimate judge and I will find out after 6 months of the XBox being on the shelf whether my current judgment is fair.
... but surely that would make you the person they would like to check the most. Heck, even security gaurds need something to make the day more interesting :)
Not all PPC based computer are made by Apple. The PPC is a good chip and runs quite happily in the RS/6000, the GameCube ( not really a Linux candidate though ) and other unnamed machines.
If this got through then in theory a hacker could create their own 'tune', copyright it and let it wander the net. Then after a couple of months claim that the reason they were breaking into the FBI computer was to check that they didn't have any illegal copies of your MP3.
Maybe what is needed is for the extensions to be open, at least in the way of their API. That way as a new feature is added by on company it becomes an extension registered with some body and then work would be performed by the community to ensure that is available for implementation by any other of the card manufacturers. I can imagine that this would lead to a case where we would be talking OGL + extension collection 1, etc. At least this way the time for implementation should be reduced.
I'm surprised that it is being hosted by Sorenson when most of the Quicktime trailers are usually hosted at akamai.net and the later usually fairs bit better.
Maybe we need to reserve get the association to allocate a number of address for non plug and play devices, so that the hobbyists can develop their own USB devices?
One advantage of USB is that it is designed for 'dumb' devices that don't do much work and thus cheap to implement. For these sort of devices the master-slave approach works well. As the connected devices become 'smarter' then there is a great need for FireWire to interconnect the devices.
BTW, don't the 3Gb transfer rates depend on an optical connection?
If I could get a computer with the form factor of a Sun Classic and stackable HDs using the same form factor, using a simple bus extender, then I would go for it.
Fear is an important factor in all this. For example in WWII Germans who were against Hitler and his whole regime were sent to the conentration camps. When you know the consenquences of admitting your stand you end up keeping very quiet. In Afganistan there is a similar situation, where people are too scared to openly act against the Taliban. There are 'underground' schools and everything, but there would be a price to pay if the Taliban ever found out.
It should also be pointed out that these people do not have access to the weapons and the money that the Taliban has access to. For this reason they probably feel that it is almost better to stay alive than to do anything against the Taliban.
The people who would love to get rid of Osma Ben Laden are not in power and don't have the leverage necessary to reveal his location.
Another point is how do you target someone hiding out in a network of underground caves and where all the houses look the same?
I'm sure that someone will come up with a digital 'bridge' that will filter the packets and change the 'copy protect' status to 'copy ok'. Its only a matter of time.
Since I have a portable MP3 player, I have put all my CDs in a cupboard and for the rest of the time I use my computer to listen to them. The extra advantage is the ability to put them into random play and I no longer get fed up with the tunes, which tends to happen if you play the same CD over and over because you can't be bothered to take the CD out ;)
If I were confronted with a copy protected CD I would take it back, citing that it is incompatible with my main play-back device - luckily I haven't had to do that yet.