Of course everyone will go to the DRM1 company to grab the largest distribution potential for their work, which then grows and grows and grows to say 80% of the market. And has full control over everything: distribution, pricing, commission for themselves, whether or not to promote/feature your work, etc. That is what happened to Apple's iTunes. And that is the real reason why everyone is now selling DRM free music.
Yes and no, the reason you see DRM-free music is because they used Apple's DRM. It was never the case with for example CSS or AACS because it is the industry's DRM. If they could have extended their DRM program to all downloadable music they would have and I doubt content owners will fall for that twice. The store and the DRM system should be commodities just like you buy any BluRay in any retailer and play it on any manufacturer's player. Of course that's "any" as in everyone that's signed a horrible DRM licensing agreement, but the point is that one manufacturer has essentially no power at all.
People pay me for useful services I do for them, and I pay people for useful services they do for me. That ad guy is useful for someone, useful for society? Society doesn't want anything, it's an anthromorphic combination of everyone else's wants. You can make some measure of efficiency but if you really want that, you can start by getting rid of everyone that lives off benefits first. That should clear up a couple billion carbon footprints. Interest on a portfolio is not for doing nothing, it's a loan of money is much the same way as if I loaned you my car. The only person who doesn't see that is someone who think he's entitled to borrow my car for free.
Well doh, they say so on page 1. But I still think it's a little wierd since say "the 60s" for me naturally go from 60-69, so we are at the end of the 00s, which somehow sounds incredibly lame.
Try looking outside the top 40 sometimes, compared to the 60s there's tons of bands all the way from great to crap best left in the garage that have managed to record a CD. You certainly don't have less opporunity to find it and buy it than you did back then with the Internet and all, despite whatever shenanigans the RIAA is doing. People don't want it really diferent, they want it like sports with this season being almost like last season except the teams and results are slightly different. So you have new teenpop with a hot bimbo or boy bands. You have new blues with someone crying their heart out. You have new country and western though there's next to nothing left of that life and so on. If copyright went away we'd have plenty mixes to keep everyone busy, and it wouldn't be any less "new" than what's already happening.
SCOTUS responded "On paper, it is limited - we don't care if Congress keeps changing the limit."
While I disagree with the decision, it's not QUITE the same thing as "[we] couldn't give a shit what the constitution says."
If limited can mean "until the sun burns out", you have effectively stricken "for limited times" from the constitution. If you can play with words like that, it's worth less than toilet paper.
I'll start to believe America is horrible when people start leaving, which last I checked, was not one of America's 'problems'.
People have been scrambling to become guest workers in Dubai up until this financial crisis too, which is definiately not a very open and free society where guest workers are thrown out like a used rag if they lose their work and the country is mostly run by fiat. And despite the US struggling now, so do many other countries - worse, even. Looking at revolutions through history most have been because the people have been poor and hungry which has been a pressure cooker they couldn't express politically. If you got decent prospects to an education, job, house, car, family, food on the table most people will simply try not sticking their head up too much. Seriously, go out and take a poll on whether "the economy and unemployment" or "erosion of civil rights and mass surveillance" is most important, I think you know the answer. They won't say they're not important, but it's just one of those things you look at and think is okay until you one day discover it's hollow and rotten because everybody has neglected it.
Meh, I run 1080p video just fine on my 330/Ion/Linux machine. It's just flash that sucks balls, and seems persistent in doing so. If flash was open source someone would have patched in VDPAU support long ago, for now we're left at the mercy of Adobe *shudder*. From what I've understood their hardware acceleration support is DXVA = Windows only even in the latest beta, they need to be take out back and shot 100 times as bad as IE6.
Sometimes I get the impression you're just trying to find fault, if it's so "abysmal unless you only use Notepad", why do you care about the "stupid restrictions"? The Atom is about two things really, price and battery life. The Atom it's a much smaller, much less handpicked chip than any of Intel's very highly priced ULV editions. And sure you can get better workhorses for your money, but not lower power than the N450 having a 5.5W TDP for CPU+memory controller+GPU with a sub-watt additional chipset.
It's horrible as a gaming machine. It's horrible as a HTPC. But it's a solid improvement over itself on the things it was already doing, by which I mean the two above and not performance. Even more so on the nettop side where the 90nm 945GC GMCH and 130nm ICH7 was a complete joke bringing the total up to a 45W TDP, with the new chip you see a 40% reduction to 25W going from a 330 to a N510. Though I'd still go with a 330 + Ion for that since it'll be a better HTPC, they're at least getting there.
I have a 330 + Ion and it still sucks for gaming, bringing up the frame rate from "frozen" to "pathetic" on lowest settings doesn't change that. What these new processors lack is H.264 decoding, but there is supposed to be a third party chip for that still there'll be no 1080p output so I guess it's pass as a HTPC, but that'll solve it for netbooks that want to see it on the included display. I think this is a solid release that'll dominate the netbook market.
ARM? Yeah, if you don't need Windows, don't need WINE, don't need virtualbox (who cares if it's dog slow on an Atom if it solves your one outstanding must-have, rarely used app?), w32codecs, dual boot or any other application who nobody bothered to test/fix on ARM. For example I don't think there's the nVidia blob that makes my Atom 330 / Ion such a nice HTPC, so one argument you use really kills the other. I see that this one doesn't fit my use case, but I can see it fitting many other people's...
Yeah it's fanboyism, but here it varies in moderation from +1 to -1. Even as a Linux user I recognize that Win7 is not bad. Many, many XP users will upgrade to it as the path of least resistance. I suspect a lot of corporations have IE6/7 installed because it works with their old software and Firefox for everything else. Once you go Win7 and IE8, is there a compelling need to install a second browser or will plain laziness win? I mean, I know people here on slashdot love to brag about all the plugins and ways you can tune your browser but I don't think most people care. If IE8 works decently enough and with few high-profile security issues, some people may convert-by-upgrade. Not saying I completely buy that, but the whole "I think the tide will turn" = troll moderation is unwarranted.
Lots of people refuse to give public interviews yet don't end up with stories like this. He's turned down a major prize and a million dollars, meaning he doesn't want recognition or money. It's one thing to not talk to journalists or a big conference, but if you're not talking to anyone you have and will develop major issues. All it'd take to dismiss this is for some good friends and colleagues to come forward and say he's a nice guy who doesn't want attention and would like to keep his personal life private, so thanks but no thanks.
Instead, he really does sound like the kind of obsessive shut-in who isn't coping very well with the world not working like mathematics. I remember seeing a TV show about people with heavy OCDs, it was quite amazing how stuck they could be because they couldn't decide or needed perfection or just spent all day going through rituals to the point of doing nothing else. This might be one of those persons that in a very few ways are not just functional but exceptional while otherwise just like them. I'm not saying there's proof to say that, just that I believe it to be possible.
Your reading comprehension is very poor, because it explicitly says of the "right that is allegedly infringed". This means that if I allege that you violate the distribution right of "District 9", then the statement under perjury is that I'm authorized to act on violations of the distribution right of "District 9". No more and no less, whether the distribution right of "District 9" has actually been violated is completely irrelevant.
Also be aware that supply and demand is standard economics. Just legalize it and then tax the hell out of it.
Huge sin taxes also create smuggling problems and the same kinds of networks for illegal activity that prohibition does, among people that otherwise would probably have been rather law-abiding.
Musicians can use the site to advertise their CD. Movie makers can post their trailers. Artists can post samples of their work. Authors can talk about their new books. BUT FUCK INDY GAME DEVELOPERS, THEY AND THEY ALONE DON'T COUNT.
Show me the article in the constitution that give anyone the right to advertize themselves on Vimeo against Vimeo's wishes. Pornography is for example discriminated against all the time, even though it's legal. You just can't put it up on YouTube, you have to go to PornTube or whatever site that wants it. So set up the vimeo of game trailers and stop complaining.
You do understand though, that the lost information in your example is lost at the capture stage not the compression stage don't you? (...) It has nothing to do with whether the original data is an accurate representation of what it claims to be.
Of course not, but when that's what you're trying to achieve it's a bit like calculating 78.45345% of "about three hundred". Taking an accurate picture of an very sketchy painting. Of course if you can't capture more then it's not possible but we can. We can build movie cameras that are better than the eye can see, and use lossy encoding to bring it down to what the eye can see and the result will be much better. It's easier to preserve 60% of a 2160p RAW than 99% of a 1080p RAW and it'll still contain 4*60% = 2.4 times as much information..
So what's the worst that could happen? They could start to suck... or go pay only like Red Hat did (yes, I know about Fedora but the earliest versions were nothing like RHL). At which point I'll check out Debian and OpenSuse and Mandriva and Fedora and maybe a few more and choose whichever sucks the least. The good stuff either comes from upstream or gets picked up by other distros, the distro is mostly who has the most polish right now, Linus and Gnome and KDE and OpenOffice and Firefox and whatnot will keep pushing out new releases regardless. If you're not committed, why worry about what might happen in the future? It works for me now, it probably will in the future but if it doesn't I'll handle it then, not now.
But it's another one of those failure that *don't* have to be, that you know is there just because of DRM. Just like my annoying TV, it is supposed to support HDMI but it only manages direct HDMI. Run it through any pass-through and it'll fail. I did check online and yeah, it has HDCP handshake timing issues. It could have been the receiver too but the point would still stand. Same on a computer, you upgrade something or don't upgrade something or reinstall or swap hardware and something and you know that wouldn't break it, DRM broke it. Want to get a Mac or a Linux box? Yeah good luck transferring those. I accept that things fail or break, it's not a perfect world. But that doesn't mean I want something that's intentionally prone to breaking.
x264 has beat every commercial encoder out there -- in some cases, on a level that would indeed render higher quality with half the bitrate.
Last I checked x264 was just on par or slightly below some commercial encoders with a standard profile. But x264 tends to have a bunch of OCD encoders who don't quit until they've tweaked it for just the right grain settings and tweaks for a given show or movie, which is usually what gives it the edge.
Sure,,but if you look at it from their perspective - before we needed time on a supercomputer and now we don't. Either you redefine supercomputers to include that or it's another task where we don't need one, even better if you ask me. So it doesn't do everything, well running an embarrassingly parallel problem on a supercomputer would also "terrible" performance now compared to this.
That's great so long as your problem is 32-bit fp, highly parallel, doesn't branch much, and fits within the memory on a GPU.
As far as I know the Teslas will be doing double precision, and we certainly could put GPUs on a better backplane for GPU-GPU communication with NUMA. What's left is being highly parallel and doesn't branch much - aren't those two sides of the same coin? - and usually that's about finding a reasonable way to break it down like a finite element model or something, there's many ways you can do that and approach the right result.
Trying to solve one megastate usually has tons of cache coherency issues to let all CPUs do useful work too. If you have to rely on a single stream of calculations performance will suck one way or the other, so really you only get decent performance if you can divide it into blocks of work and yet each block is branching enough that a supercomputer is better than a GPU. So it won't be a general purpose supercomputer true but these aren't computers used for running a million different desktop apps. There's some highly specialized simulations you run, if you can do better on highly specialized hardware that's what will happen.
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Of course everyone will go to the DRM1 company to grab the largest distribution potential for their work, which then grows and grows and grows to say 80% of the market. And has full control over everything: distribution, pricing, commission for themselves, whether or not to promote/feature your work, etc. That is what happened to Apple's iTunes. And that is the real reason why everyone is now selling DRM free music.
Yes and no, the reason you see DRM-free music is because they used Apple's DRM. It was never the case with for example CSS or AACS because it is the industry's DRM. If they could have extended their DRM program to all downloadable music they would have and I doubt content owners will fall for that twice. The store and the DRM system should be commodities just like you buy any BluRay in any retailer and play it on any manufacturer's player. Of course that's "any" as in everyone that's signed a horrible DRM licensing agreement, but the point is that one manufacturer has essentially no power at all.
But I'm guessing no HTML5 video since that is pretty much stranded on the codec issue. That's the one thing I'd like to get rid of flash...
People pay me for useful services I do for them, and I pay people for useful services they do for me. That ad guy is useful for someone, useful for society? Society doesn't want anything, it's an anthromorphic combination of everyone else's wants. You can make some measure of efficiency but if you really want that, you can start by getting rid of everyone that lives off benefits first. That should clear up a couple billion carbon footprints. Interest on a portfolio is not for doing nothing, it's a loan of money is much the same way as if I loaned you my car. The only person who doesn't see that is someone who think he's entitled to borrow my car for free.
Well doh, they say so on page 1. But I still think it's a little wierd since say "the 60s" for me naturally go from 60-69, so we are at the end of the 00s, which somehow sounds incredibly lame.
(Atom fanboys: First add the giant north bridge monster to your calculations before you answer. ^^)
Perhaps the ARM fanboy should RTFA, since there is no more giant north bridge?
Yeah right, nice cover with the political activism but we all know what you're here for ;)
Try looking outside the top 40 sometimes, compared to the 60s there's tons of bands all the way from great to crap best left in the garage that have managed to record a CD. You certainly don't have less opporunity to find it and buy it than you did back then with the Internet and all, despite whatever shenanigans the RIAA is doing. People don't want it really diferent, they want it like sports with this season being almost like last season except the teams and results are slightly different. So you have new teenpop with a hot bimbo or boy bands. You have new blues with someone crying their heart out. You have new country and western though there's next to nothing left of that life and so on. If copyright went away we'd have plenty mixes to keep everyone busy, and it wouldn't be any less "new" than what's already happening.
SCOTUS responded "On paper, it is limited - we don't care if Congress keeps changing the limit."
While I disagree with the decision, it's not QUITE the same thing as "[we] couldn't give a shit what the constitution says."
If limited can mean "until the sun burns out", you have effectively stricken "for limited times" from the constitution. If you can play with words like that, it's worth less than toilet paper.
I'll start to believe America is horrible when people start leaving, which last I checked, was not one of America's 'problems'.
People have been scrambling to become guest workers in Dubai up until this financial crisis too, which is definiately not a very open and free society where guest workers are thrown out like a used rag if they lose their work and the country is mostly run by fiat. And despite the US struggling now, so do many other countries - worse, even. Looking at revolutions through history most have been because the people have been poor and hungry which has been a pressure cooker they couldn't express politically. If you got decent prospects to an education, job, house, car, family, food on the table most people will simply try not sticking their head up too much. Seriously, go out and take a poll on whether "the economy and unemployment" or "erosion of civil rights and mass surveillance" is most important, I think you know the answer. They won't say they're not important, but it's just one of those things you look at and think is okay until you one day discover it's hollow and rotten because everybody has neglected it.
Meh, I run 1080p video just fine on my 330/Ion/Linux machine. It's just flash that sucks balls, and seems persistent in doing so. If flash was open source someone would have patched in VDPAU support long ago, for now we're left at the mercy of Adobe *shudder*. From what I've understood their hardware acceleration support is DXVA = Windows only even in the latest beta, they need to be take out back and shot 100 times as bad as IE6.
Sometimes I get the impression you're just trying to find fault, if it's so "abysmal unless you only use Notepad", why do you care about the "stupid restrictions"? The Atom is about two things really, price and battery life. The Atom it's a much smaller, much less handpicked chip than any of Intel's very highly priced ULV editions. And sure you can get better workhorses for your money, but not lower power than the N450 having a 5.5W TDP for CPU+memory controller+GPU with a sub-watt additional chipset.
It's horrible as a gaming machine. It's horrible as a HTPC. But it's a solid improvement over itself on the things it was already doing, by which I mean the two above and not performance. Even more so on the nettop side where the 90nm 945GC GMCH and 130nm ICH7 was a complete joke bringing the total up to a 45W TDP, with the new chip you see a 40% reduction to 25W going from a 330 to a N510. Though I'd still go with a 330 + Ion for that since it'll be a better HTPC, they're at least getting there.
I have a 330 + Ion and it still sucks for gaming, bringing up the frame rate from "frozen" to "pathetic" on lowest settings doesn't change that. What these new processors lack is H.264 decoding, but there is supposed to be a third party chip for that still there'll be no 1080p output so I guess it's pass as a HTPC, but that'll solve it for netbooks that want to see it on the included display. I think this is a solid release that'll dominate the netbook market.
ARM? Yeah, if you don't need Windows, don't need WINE, don't need virtualbox (who cares if it's dog slow on an Atom if it solves your one outstanding must-have, rarely used app?), w32codecs, dual boot or any other application who nobody bothered to test/fix on ARM. For example I don't think there's the nVidia blob that makes my Atom 330 / Ion such a nice HTPC, so one argument you use really kills the other. I see that this one doesn't fit my use case, but I can see it fitting many other people's...
Yeah it's fanboyism, but here it varies in moderation from +1 to -1. Even as a Linux user I recognize that Win7 is not bad. Many, many XP users will upgrade to it as the path of least resistance. I suspect a lot of corporations have IE6/7 installed because it works with their old software and Firefox for everything else. Once you go Win7 and IE8, is there a compelling need to install a second browser or will plain laziness win? I mean, I know people here on slashdot love to brag about all the plugins and ways you can tune your browser but I don't think most people care. If IE8 works decently enough and with few high-profile security issues, some people may convert-by-upgrade. Not saying I completely buy that, but the whole "I think the tide will turn" = troll moderation is unwarranted.
Lots of people refuse to give public interviews yet don't end up with stories like this. He's turned down a major prize and a million dollars, meaning he doesn't want recognition or money. It's one thing to not talk to journalists or a big conference, but if you're not talking to anyone you have and will develop major issues. All it'd take to dismiss this is for some good friends and colleagues to come forward and say he's a nice guy who doesn't want attention and would like to keep his personal life private, so thanks but no thanks.
Instead, he really does sound like the kind of obsessive shut-in who isn't coping very well with the world not working like mathematics. I remember seeing a TV show about people with heavy OCDs, it was quite amazing how stuck they could be because they couldn't decide or needed perfection or just spent all day going through rituals to the point of doing nothing else. This might be one of those persons that in a very few ways are not just functional but exceptional while otherwise just like them. I'm not saying there's proof to say that, just that I believe it to be possible.
Your reading comprehension is very poor, because it explicitly says of the "right that is allegedly infringed". This means that if I allege that you violate the distribution right of "District 9", then the statement under perjury is that I'm authorized to act on violations of the distribution right of "District 9". No more and no less, whether the distribution right of "District 9" has actually been violated is completely irrelevant.
Also be aware that supply and demand is standard economics. Just legalize it and then tax the hell out of it.
Huge sin taxes also create smuggling problems and the same kinds of networks for illegal activity that prohibition does, among people that otherwise would probably have been rather law-abiding.
Musicians can use the site to advertise their CD. Movie makers can post their trailers. Artists can post samples of their work. Authors can talk about their new books. BUT FUCK INDY GAME DEVELOPERS, THEY AND THEY ALONE DON'T COUNT.
Show me the article in the constitution that give anyone the right to advertize themselves on Vimeo against Vimeo's wishes. Pornography is for example discriminated against all the time, even though it's legal. You just can't put it up on YouTube, you have to go to PornTube or whatever site that wants it. So set up the vimeo of game trailers and stop complaining.
You do understand though, that the lost information in your example is lost at the capture stage not the compression stage don't you? (...) It has nothing to do with whether the original data is an accurate representation of what it claims to be.
Of course not, but when that's what you're trying to achieve it's a bit like calculating 78.45345% of "about three hundred". Taking an accurate picture of an very sketchy painting. Of course if you can't capture more then it's not possible but we can. We can build movie cameras that are better than the eye can see, and use lossy encoding to bring it down to what the eye can see and the result will be much better. It's easier to preserve 60% of a 2160p RAW than 99% of a 1080p RAW and it'll still contain 4*60% = 2.4 times as much information..
Anyone with a 6-figure UID is "new" on /.
But Ubuntu is "newer" so my point was he's been here ever since it became possible to raise that question.
No, not "a COO d'état," it will be "the COO d'état."
It is Canonical, after all.
I hereby promote you to bureaucrat grade 13.
So what's the worst that could happen? They could start to suck... or go pay only like Red Hat did (yes, I know about Fedora but the earliest versions were nothing like RHL). At which point I'll check out Debian and OpenSuse and Mandriva and Fedora and maybe a few more and choose whichever sucks the least. The good stuff either comes from upstream or gets picked up by other distros, the distro is mostly who has the most polish right now, Linus and Gnome and KDE and OpenOffice and Firefox and whatnot will keep pushing out new releases regardless. If you're not committed, why worry about what might happen in the future? It works for me now, it probably will in the future but if it doesn't I'll handle it then, not now.
Why a Debian logo instead of the Ubuntu logo?
Did you buy that uid because I'd normally say "you must be new here"...
But it's another one of those failure that *don't* have to be, that you know is there just because of DRM. Just like my annoying TV, it is supposed to support HDMI but it only manages direct HDMI. Run it through any pass-through and it'll fail. I did check online and yeah, it has HDCP handshake timing issues. It could have been the receiver too but the point would still stand. Same on a computer, you upgrade something or don't upgrade something or reinstall or swap hardware and something and you know that wouldn't break it, DRM broke it. Want to get a Mac or a Linux box? Yeah good luck transferring those. I accept that things fail or break, it's not a perfect world. But that doesn't mean I want something that's intentionally prone to breaking.
x264 has beat every commercial encoder out there -- in some cases, on a level that would indeed render higher quality with half the bitrate.
Last I checked x264 was just on par or slightly below some commercial encoders with a standard profile. But x264 tends to have a bunch of OCD encoders who don't quit until they've tweaked it for just the right grain settings and tweaks for a given show or movie, which is usually what gives it the edge.
Sure,,but if you look at it from their perspective - before we needed time on a supercomputer and now we don't. Either you redefine supercomputers to include that or it's another task where we don't need one, even better if you ask me. So it doesn't do everything, well running an embarrassingly parallel problem on a supercomputer would also "terrible" performance now compared to this.
That's great so long as your problem is 32-bit fp, highly parallel, doesn't branch much, and fits within the memory on a GPU.
As far as I know the Teslas will be doing double precision, and we certainly could put GPUs on a better backplane for GPU-GPU communication with NUMA. What's left is being highly parallel and doesn't branch much - aren't those two sides of the same coin? - and usually that's about finding a reasonable way to break it down like a finite element model or something, there's many ways you can do that and approach the right result.
Trying to solve one megastate usually has tons of cache coherency issues to let all CPUs do useful work too. If you have to rely on a single stream of calculations performance will suck one way or the other, so really you only get decent performance if you can divide it into blocks of work and yet each block is branching enough that a supercomputer is better than a GPU. So it won't be a general purpose supercomputer true but these aren't computers used for running a million different desktop apps. There's some highly specialized simulations you run, if you can do better on highly specialized hardware that's what will happen.
Indeed. Next we'll be seeing pornography on it! Can you imagine?
If it's related to this case I'd rather not.