Any big customer like that, I imagine Sony would be happy to sell them PS3s with a custom firmware. It's the more moderatly sized research organisations that might benefit - those who don't have the money or connections needed to get Sony's cooperation.
3. The SACD player digital audio output. All SACD players must support a DRMed extension - I forget it's name - but it's very primative and trivial to break. So you could just record off that.
Nintendo had a nifty solution for the old Gameboy(/color) - code wasn't signed, but games did need to have some magic bytes in the right place. Quite a lot of magic bytes, which had to be bit-perfect. They were actually the Nintendo logo, the one displayed on the screen at the start - so for any game to execute on the GB, it absolutly has to contain the Nintendo logo. In those pre-DMCA times, Nintendo found a way to use trademark law as a way to keep unlicenced games at bay.
I did consider that possibility myself, but I don't think it can be done perfectly. They can include a list of hashes for all the big games, but think how many games there are - and then they have slight variations by version, by region, and so on. Unless they can get every publisher to send the hashes for every version of every game they have sent to the CD press, some people will find their games broken. Sony might consider that a price worth paying.
Because they are losing money on every console - they make it back on the games. No code signing means:
1. Users buying PS3s for reasons other than gaming.
3. Free hobbiest games and unlicensed games made by companies in places without a DMCA equivilent and lax enforcement copyright law.
Both of these eat into Sony's profits - and, while not enough to merit the huge expense of a new console upgrade cycle, might encourage them to move the planned release date closer.
It is impressive indeed. Though I do note that it didn't completly resist attack for four years. It just took for years to be completly, irrepairably and conveniently broken. There have been wayst o break the PS3s DRM for years, but their complexity put the beyond the ability of all but the most technologically capable users. With the code-signing cracked, it's as simple as burning an ISO.
My point exactly. The Na'Vi were designed, above all else, to be hot. Six limbs are... ok, actually, I know some furries who would disagree. But to most people, six limbs are not hot.
Frankenstein the movies, anyway. The message changed. In the book, the monster wasn't created evil and destructive - he became that way due to mistreatment, as every character hated him on sight due to his hideous appearance. The (many) movie adaptations all altered the message into something simpler, a basic 'science is evil' story.
Though he was obviously a strawman military standin, I must give him points for sheer badassery from that scene - along with the bit where he climbs into a mech while completly ignoring that he happens to be on fire.
It's worse than that. The movie was quite clear that it was his lack of education that made him superior. The scientists had tried to analyse and study, while he relied purely on intuition and emotion. His way worked.
The original Tron explained how the laser worked - a subject is scanned, their atoms held suspended within the laser, and the information transmitted to the computer. It was also the size of a building: I just assumed Flynn had spent a few years miniturising it.
Quorra's getting through makes no sense at all. We know she has no organs, because she lost an earm earlier and regrew it no problem. Getting her out would require the design of a complete body. I could accept that if it were shown to have taken place, or even refered to as having been done prior to the events of the movie. Instead the portal is treated like magic - step in in one reality, pop out in the other.
£200 means that, for slightly more than what this family spends on food every month, I could buy some of the most advanced technology ever created - an intricate mechanism with components so tiny, they are bound by the limitations of atoms. That is built out of parts from all over the world. For what it is, £200 for a laptop is really cheap. I couldn't buy a good quality *chair* for £200 if it were made in this country.
It might be more accurate to see he is closer to American Conservatives in his social views (Anti-homosexuality, pro-life*, openly advocated Christianity as the state religion) but closer to American Liberals in his economic views (An active government involved in much economic activity, as well as setting social policies and promoting them). In his political positions, he isn't either. Neither liberals nor conservatives want to abolish democracy (Well, a tiny number on each side), though they both seem to accuse the other of that.
*One of the first things he did was ban all abortion. He later made an exception for 'undesireables' though.
American politics, however, is. Not black and white, but left and right. There are only two parties of any note, and each adopted a political side - both defining it, and becoming defined by it. It's lead to a level of polarisation in which the middle, though present in debate, is effectively excluded from organised or serious politics.
"There's all kinds of other open-source ideology being tossed about."
I'm amazed Disney let this get through. This is one of the most pro-copyright companies around today. A company that once made an episode of The Proud Family entirely dedicated to telling children that if they download music from Napster they are stealing and a SWAT team will come to storm their house. How did their executives let this message slip through?
Encom is a technology company - they have many diverse subdivisions. They make games, they make an operating system, but the MCP in Tron was also taking over functions like insurance company accounting from another Encom operation. The laser was just part of their R&D division, developing new products to patent and manufacture.It also wasn't made for scanning people specifically, and in TRON was a ridiculously huge machine taking up a space the size of a hanger. Flynn's secret lab machine was much more compact, though it appeared to utilise the same design for the business end.
Probably not, actually. How could he be content making games, after experiencing the full potential of computers? I imagine he would have devoted himself to perfecting the laser scanner technology instead. No time for games any more when he has things so much more important to work on.
You can fix them by thinking about what comes next.
Fern Gully: They defeated a single logging machine. Thousands more will come. Zack will bring his message to the world about the need to preserve nature, but we already have people saying that, and the deforestation continues anyway.
Avatar: The planet is worth unimaginable amounts of money. More will come. The natives got soundly defeated in combat by the security detail of a mineing company - next time it'll be a real military, with orbital bombardment weapons, real bombs, and enough nukes to sterilise a continent.
The villain here was CLU, and I was curious about that as well... along with the question of how well his various war machines, all of which were based upon the physics of the grid, could possibly function in a world where laws of gravity and conservation of energy apply. Were he able to somehow transmit through the transcoder, would his carrier simply fall to the ground and machines refuse to move?
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Any big customer like that, I imagine Sony would be happy to sell them PS3s with a custom firmware. It's the more moderatly sized research organisations that might benefit - those who don't have the money or connections needed to get Sony's cooperation.
3. The SACD player digital audio output. All SACD players must support a DRMed extension - I forget it's name - but it's very primative and trivial to break. So you could just record off that.
Nintendo had a nifty solution for the old Gameboy(/color) - code wasn't signed, but games did need to have some magic bytes in the right place. Quite a lot of magic bytes, which had to be bit-perfect. They were actually the Nintendo logo, the one displayed on the screen at the start - so for any game to execute on the GB, it absolutly has to contain the Nintendo logo. In those pre-DMCA times, Nintendo found a way to use trademark law as a way to keep unlicenced games at bay.
I did consider that possibility myself, but I don't think it can be done perfectly. They can include a list of hashes for all the big games, but think how many games there are - and then they have slight variations by version, by region, and so on. Unless they can get every publisher to send the hashes for every version of every game they have sent to the CD press, some people will find their games broken. Sony might consider that a price worth paying.
Because they are losing money on every console - they make it back on the games. No code signing means:
1. Users buying PS3s for reasons other than gaming.
3. Free hobbiest games and unlicensed games made by companies in places without a DMCA equivilent and lax enforcement copyright law.
Both of these eat into Sony's profits - and, while not enough to merit the huge expense of a new console upgrade cycle, might encourage them to move the planned release date closer.
They won't. But they might hasten the release of the PS4.
It is impressive indeed. Though I do note that it didn't completly resist attack for four years. It just took for years to be completly, irrepairably and conveniently broken. There have been wayst o break the PS3s DRM for years, but their complexity put the beyond the ability of all but the most technologically capable users. With the code-signing cracked, it's as simple as burning an ISO.
My point exactly. The Na'Vi were designed, above all else, to be hot. Six limbs are... ok, actually, I know some furries who would disagree. But to most people, six limbs are not hot.
A little intuition, and a whole lot of math. Mostly math.
Frankenstein the movies, anyway. The message changed. In the book, the monster wasn't created evil and destructive - he became that way due to mistreatment, as every character hated him on sight due to his hideous appearance. The (many) movie adaptations all altered the message into something simpler, a basic 'science is evil' story.
Though he was obviously a strawman military standin, I must give him points for sheer badassery from that scene - along with the bit where he climbs into a mech while completly ignoring that he happens to be on fire.
It's worse than that. The movie was quite clear that it was his lack of education that made him superior. The scientists had tried to analyse and study, while he relied purely on intuition and emotion. His way worked.
Star Wars would be classed as a space opera. Star Trek is variable, different episodes tending different ways.
Espicially on a planet where all other animal life has six limbs.
The original Tron explained how the laser worked - a subject is scanned, their atoms held suspended within the laser, and the information transmitted to the computer. It was also the size of a building: I just assumed Flynn had spent a few years miniturising it.
Quorra's getting through makes no sense at all. We know she has no organs, because she lost an earm earlier and regrew it no problem. Getting her out would require the design of a complete body. I could accept that if it were shown to have taken place, or even refered to as having been done prior to the events of the movie. Instead the portal is treated like magic - step in in one reality, pop out in the other.
£200 means that, for slightly more than what this family spends on food every month, I could buy some of the most advanced technology ever created - an intricate mechanism with components so tiny, they are bound by the limitations of atoms. That is built out of parts from all over the world. For what it is, £200 for a laptop is really cheap. I couldn't buy a good quality *chair* for £200 if it were made in this country.
"No ISP has ever done that."
No, but some mobile ISPs have blocked VoIP, as it competes with their very profitable phone service.
It might be more accurate to see he is closer to American Conservatives in his social views (Anti-homosexuality, pro-life*, openly advocated Christianity as the state religion) but closer to American Liberals in his economic views (An active government involved in much economic activity, as well as setting social policies and promoting them). In his political positions, he isn't either. Neither liberals nor conservatives want to abolish democracy (Well, a tiny number on each side), though they both seem to accuse the other of that.
*One of the first things he did was ban all abortion. He later made an exception for 'undesireables' though.
American politics, however, is. Not black and white, but left and right. There are only two parties of any note, and each adopted a political side - both defining it, and becoming defined by it. It's lead to a level of polarisation in which the middle, though present in debate, is effectively excluded from organised or serious politics.
I remember it the first way, but I could be wrong.
"There's all kinds of other open-source ideology being tossed about."
I'm amazed Disney let this get through. This is one of the most pro-copyright companies around today. A company that once made an episode of The Proud Family entirely dedicated to telling children that if they download music from Napster they are stealing and a SWAT team will come to storm their house. How did their executives let this message slip through?
Encom is a technology company - they have many diverse subdivisions. They make games, they make an operating system, but the MCP in Tron was also taking over functions like insurance company accounting from another Encom operation. The laser was just part of their R&D division, developing new products to patent and manufacture.It also wasn't made for scanning people specifically, and in TRON was a ridiculously huge machine taking up a space the size of a hanger. Flynn's secret lab machine was much more compact, though it appeared to utilise the same design for the business end.
Probably not, actually. How could he be content making games, after experiencing the full potential of computers? I imagine he would have devoted himself to perfecting the laser scanner technology instead. No time for games any more when he has things so much more important to work on.
You can fix them by thinking about what comes next.
Fern Gully: They defeated a single logging machine. Thousands more will come. Zack will bring his message to the world about the need to preserve nature, but we already have people saying that, and the deforestation continues anyway.
Avatar: The planet is worth unimaginable amounts of money. More will come. The natives got soundly defeated in combat by the security detail of a mineing company - next time it'll be a real military, with orbital bombardment weapons, real bombs, and enough nukes to sterilise a continent.
The villain here was CLU, and I was curious about that as well... along with the question of how well his various war machines, all of which were based upon the physics of the grid, could possibly function in a world where laws of gravity and conservation of energy apply. Were he able to somehow transmit through the transcoder, would his carrier simply fall to the ground and machines refuse to move?