Except that this analogy is wrong. In some cases electrical signals work like that, but don't travel instantaneously. No object is totally rigid, its forbidden somewhere in the laws of physics. The balls will compress slightly and then a wave either in the movement of the balls or their getting compressesed and then expanding. Its akin to taking a stiff object and swinging it, if you swing it fast enough and its long enough, the end won't break the speed of light because its not completely rigid.
The upshot is that if such measures really are built in, the general-purpose computer may not have long to live.
What does that quote above have to do with the article? How is that an upshot? In the end of the article it says that if copy prevention is placed into computers what's probably going to happen is that no one will buy these as non-lamed systems will still be more flexible in working with other systems.
Of course this may not be true as many people and companies buy from outfits like Dell, which already makes only Intel, how long before the RIAA gets Dell to sign a license that makes them copy protect every computer they make? No one'll stop buying Dell because its -dell-
Still, I can't see anyone who rolls their own ever going for this. I know that you can't digitally drive speaker elements there must be an analog signal going to the coil inside of each speaker it'd be trivial to cut open the speaker and solder those wires to a standard male plug, plug them into your audio in on the sound card and hit record...
Actually, I would expect that it would be just the way you expect it to be. I know that artists, models, and others when paid for their work by request, these works are considered works for hire and are owned by the person who paid for them. If nothing else amuse yourself and have them sign a contract with you which gives you the copyright.
I believe that what that means is that they based it on the average day wages of a random cross section of america, Notice, that it says about 300 million will be lost, but if 2.6 million geeks call in sick, and they all work in IT, imagine what their day wage is, let alone what will happen when thousands of computer systems go down. Of course, some might be working in engineering, or other geeky professions, but these people still usually make over 100 dollars in wages a day. And the companies always make more money off the worker than they pay them on average, but an average of a random section of society may make only 100 dollars in wages a day.
A synopsis of the backstory to EQ 2 : after millions of adventures descended upon the lands and reached level 60 they wiped clean from norrath all signs of monsters, to gain more experience they turned upon the eldest races of the dragons, and the cutest races of the fluffy bunnies, Then, without any way to level up and gain treasure, they turned upon the very land, chopping down trees for 5 exp, tilling under the grass for 10 xp an acre, and salting it for an additional 15, whereupon they turned upon themselves in search of food and gameplay, until norrath was nothing but a wasteland, with two humans left, and a flower. (And empowered by the state of their fallen masters, rabbits descended upon the world)
Its 1 am, I'm trying to access the page and its been slashdotted, and there's only one post here, which is completely off topic. Here's the google cache. http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:2cjidJqW-tIC: www.qedata.se/e_js_n-cdrom.htm+&hl=en
At about 52x, i.e. 27,500 rpm, most manufacturer's CDs blew up in a rain of plastic particles, leaving their marks on the premises. The result was a pile of shimmering plastic chips.
EEEE! I've heard about spinning discs of metal in experiments exploding, hurling bricks through floors and walls...... I suppose there's not much else to say, except, remember to burn cds in only at 50x, or else you might damage your motherboard...
Ah, I think I'll just start my own music store, Sell cds at or below regular cost, and to amuse myself and make money, I'll have a row of these machines by the back wall... you can return any cd in within 30 minutes. 5 dollars a copy. enjoy:) And all the security cameras will be pointing away from the machines.
The place I live sells accounts to rooms, single port in a room, you call in, 30 dollars to sign up, and 20 for a month, sounds good, right? So I call them up, ask them, what's the service, the plan, the billing, etc... don't worry, its 2.2 mbps down, and 384kbps upload! Ok, sounds good... sign me up. well, aside from a quick little problem with the router attaching itself to your mac address, it turns out that its sharing one road runner account through the whole apartment complex. I call up tech support "can you tell me why my internet connection sucks so badly?" re: "because its a sucky connection on sucky routers" (that's what tech support said, at least THEY were being honest). well, can you fix it? Sure, let us kick some other people off the network... eeee! Right now, I download at about 20-30k, and my upload is around the ballpark of.4k I can't play CS, because my choke is at 100 and my ping is 2000. Give me a 36.6k modem! Pleaasseeee...
I say, its possible, but only for a man being chased by the dmca. you walk from between 1-5 miles an hour or so, the fastest sprinters can do 15-20 or something, I'm not quite sure on the numbers. But, standard running is between 5-10 miles an hour, if he's running at 8 miles an hour, which is a decent pace but not too strenous, like a brisk jog I think, he only needs to keep it up for 18 hours, and we all know that you can stay awake for that long... I can walk for 18 hours, and I'm not fit. I think he can do it...
Think about it, how many people are likely to see this ad, repeatedly? is it the target demographic? I can't see anyone imagining you'd be able to sell these ads for more than a few dollars (no more than 5, I think). No one would see them, no one who saw them would care, and, anyone cheap enough to put these on gravestones wouldn't be getting a gravestone, The ONLY reason I can imagine putting one of these on a gravestone is to spite the dead. I can think of a few people's gravestones I'd like to take out ads on...
Like another poster said, the only object of this is to get it into the news, free publicity. Parts of the article sounded enough like an ad to surve the advertiser's purpose...
"On the ShadowMan 2 website, the game is described as incorporating "fierce and gruesome" fighting. It involves users playing a New York policeman who has a "living dead" alter ago who is seeking a confrontation with the devil. He has magic and voodoo weapons to help him."
Anyhow, imagining trying to buy an ad in every graveyard in the country...
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I've used cameras in museums before, the only got annoyed when flash came on. not that I wanted it to, it does so by itself
You know, you can also OC your texas instruments calculators?
Solder a chip onto the board to change the frequency of the CPU and presto, twice as fast. Woohooo, look at boulder dash 86 fly!
I have a pile of 30 dollar coins sitting in front of me,
Its somehow more stylish to pull a few gold coins out of a pouch and slap them on the counter.
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Who said we'd inflate the balloon? mars has a 1/100th of the air pressure, using a few stiff wires and the thinnest mylar you can find, I bet that you could hold a vaccuum in that sort of pressure.
interestingly, since you need only a 100 times more volume, which equates to 100^(1/3) times as much volume on earth, it won't really have to be as big.
I think about 4-5 times as large in a single dimension.
Heh, it would probably still be as big as the queen emeraldas!
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true, but show me how to manufacture nantubules in large enough quantities to do that:), heh, and I'll just show you how to manufacture diamond blades...
But yeah, that's what they said about carbon fiber,
I think also that diamond is strong enough to build the space elevator.
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Oh yes, one more thing,
I'm curious as to whether an Ekranoplane would work better (plane that uses the surface pressure effect to lift, like a cross between a hovercraft and plane),
hum, come to think of it, it probably won't, the wings probably would probably have to be too high off the ground for safety to be able to compress the thin atmosphere to the point where it provides lift off the ground.... assuming the speed of sound is less on mars than on earth.
If the speed of sound was faster (which I'm thinking it is now), it might work.
Does X-plane simulate ekranoplanes?
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Helicopters won't work well on mars, you'll need to have your props spinning 10 times faster to get the same lift, which will be somewhat diffucult, no?
It might work actually, but AFAIK there aren't any easily manufacturable materials that will stand up to the centripetal forces, since there will be 100 times as much force on the end of the prop (centripetal force is the square of velocity). You might be able to do this by increasing the surface area of the prop (longer blades, or more blades).
Also, nasa's probes once they get into the atmosphere still use parachutes and rockets to slow down to a decent speed and then giant inflatable bubbles to bounce along, but you only use that when you're below a few hundred knots. In the article, it says, that you'll be going 400 mph in a well designed plane, there's no way you're gonna just bounce around if you hit the ground like that... Same inertia, right? imagine that its like having 10 times more inertia...
also, I've seen a few articles, he mentions red sky on mars.
I've seen no good proof to believe the sky is red, if its because the ground is red, think about the earth, in the middle of a desert, or forest, is the sky yellow or green? looking at that, you'll often think they'll be bluer than at the beach (where it tends to look grey, I live at a beach town).
Because the colour of the sky is caused by Raleigh scattering (or other scattering effects), the effect (based on the size distribution of particles in the atmosphere) is the same on Mars as it is Earth.
Somewhere, if you hunt around for photos from the surface of mars, and correct using say, photoshop, for the colour (look at the parts of the probe you can see in the picture and return them to their original colours, usually white or metal, unless its an american flag), the sky will be blue.
I really don't consider this is a troll, even though most/. users would.
I agree, if you're an idiot and don't read through, you should get smacked upside the head.
then again, there should also be a way to also be part of the service and not have to breach your privacy.
at first I thought this was referring to The Descent of the Anansi (someone said it was pulpy, personally I like it.) (i have this thing for near future books, like Clarke's A Fall of Moondust, Sheffield's Cold as Ice, etc, if you know of any mail me), but after reading I realized it referred to electrically charged tethers without a weight on the end. It should be possible, I think, to electrically charge (or not) the tether and allow it to reel itself out without a motor, I think that's what their plan is anyways. I think its a great idea, but from what I heard the wire can get mighty hot, I think I saw a picture of it once. it was a white glowing filament that was starting to break up. or I might just be imagining things. I wonder how they're going to deal with the voltage potential of millions of volts thought a 1.22 mm aluminium wire, without having it boil away like the world's longest fuse.
Who and what is this judge precendent over? I was unsure of whether this was a judge in the US or a corporate judge. In any case, this judge seems to be a BS spouting lackey of corporatism (just another example of the internet becoming.commercialized). In any case, I may hate theism, but I must quote Voltaire here, "I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend your right to say it unto my death"... especially if you registered the domain in good faith and have a valid use of it. Why must stupidity prevail? oh yeah, capitalist government. In this case, since corporations are so favored, can a person create a company named after the domain name they buy, and simply use that as the company's site, like jasonswebcam incorporated. It might also be effective if you sue and have the domain transferred from yourself to the company, in case someone else wants to take the domain name away later. Oh look, the judges already gave us this domain name, they ruled that it was ours. not yours. nyah nyah.
Uhh... ok, maybe I'll just clean up this rant, and submit it to slashdot to post on the main page. I don't think it'll get the coverage here it deserves.
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Except that this analogy is wrong.
In some cases electrical signals work like that, but don't travel instantaneously.
No object is totally rigid, its forbidden somewhere in the laws of physics. The balls will compress slightly and then a wave either in the movement of the balls or their getting compressesed and then expanding. Its akin to taking a stiff object and swinging it, if you swing it fast enough and its long enough, the end won't break the speed of light because its not completely rigid.
The upshot is that if such measures really are built in, the general-purpose computer may not have long to live.
What does that quote above have to do with the article? How is that an upshot? In the end of the article it says that if copy prevention is placed into computers what's probably going to happen is that no one will buy these as non-lamed systems will still be more flexible in working with other systems.
Of course this may not be true as many people and companies buy from outfits like Dell, which already makes only Intel, how long before the RIAA gets Dell to sign a license that makes them copy protect every computer they make? No one'll stop buying Dell because its -dell-
Still, I can't see anyone who rolls their own ever going for this. I know that you can't digitally drive speaker elements there must be an analog signal going to the coil inside of each speaker it'd be trivial to cut open the speaker and solder those wires to a standard male plug, plug them into your audio in on the sound card and hit record...
Actually, I would expect that it would be just the way you expect it to be. I know that artists, models, and others when paid for their work by request, these works are considered works for hire and are owned by the person who paid for them. If nothing else amuse yourself and have them sign a contract with you which gives you the copyright.
I believe that what that means is that they based it on the average day wages of a random cross section of america,
Notice, that it says about 300 million will be lost, but if 2.6 million geeks call in sick, and they all work in IT, imagine what their day wage is, let alone what will happen when thousands of computer systems go down. Of course, some might be working in engineering, or other geeky professions, but these people still usually make over 100 dollars in wages a day.
And the companies always make more money off the worker than they pay them on average,
but an average of a random section of society may make only 100 dollars in wages a day.
A synopsis of the backstory to EQ 2 : after millions of adventures descended upon the lands and reached level 60 they wiped clean from norrath all signs of monsters, to gain more experience they turned upon the eldest races of the dragons, and the cutest races of the fluffy bunnies,
Then, without any way to level up and gain treasure, they turned upon the very land, chopping down trees for 5 exp, tilling under the grass for 10 xp an acre, and salting it for an additional 15,
whereupon they turned upon themselves in search of food and gameplay, until norrath was nothing but a wasteland, with two humans left, and a flower. (And empowered by the state of their fallen masters, rabbits descended upon the world)
no, but it certainly takes someone alot smarter the average person.
Here's the google cache. http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:2cjidJqW-tIC
EEEE!
I've heard about spinning discs of metal in experiments exploding, hurling bricks through floors and walls...... I suppose there's not much else to say, except, remember to burn cds in only at 50x, or else you might damage your motherboard...
Ah, I think I'll just start my own music store, Sell cds at or below regular cost, :)
and to amuse myself and make money, I'll have a row of these machines by the back wall... you can return any cd in within 30 minutes.
5 dollars a copy. enjoy
And all the security cameras will be pointing away from the machines.
The place I live sells accounts to rooms, single port in a room, you call in, 30 dollars to sign up, and 20 for a month, sounds good, right? .4k
So I call them up, ask them, what's the service, the plan, the billing, etc...
don't worry, its 2.2 mbps down, and 384kbps upload!
Ok, sounds good... sign me up.
well, aside from a quick little problem with the router attaching itself to your mac address,
it turns out that its sharing one road runner account through the whole apartment complex.
I call up tech support "can you tell me why my internet connection sucks so badly?"
re: "because its a sucky connection on sucky routers" (that's what tech support said, at least THEY were being honest).
well, can you fix it?
Sure, let us kick some other people off the network...
eeee!
Right now, I download at about 20-30k, and my upload is around the ballpark of
I can't play CS, because my choke is at 100 and my ping is 2000.
Give me a 36.6k modem! Pleaasseeee...
I say, its possible, but only for a man being chased by the dmca.
you walk from between 1-5 miles an hour or so,
the fastest sprinters can do 15-20 or something, I'm not quite sure on the numbers.
But, standard running is between 5-10 miles an hour,
if he's running at 8 miles an hour, which is a decent pace but not too strenous, like a brisk jog I think, he only needs to keep it up for 18 hours, and we all know that you can stay awake for that long...
I can walk for 18 hours, and I'm not fit. I think he can do it...
Think about it, how many people are likely to see this ad, repeatedly?
is it the target demographic?
I can't see anyone imagining you'd be able to sell these ads for more than a few dollars (no more than 5, I think).
No one would see them, no one who saw them would care,
and, anyone cheap enough to put these on gravestones wouldn't be getting a gravestone,
The ONLY reason I can imagine putting one of these on a gravestone is to spite the dead. I can think of a few people's gravestones I'd like to take out ads on...
Like another poster said, the only object of this is to get it into the news, free publicity.
Parts of the article sounded enough like an ad to surve the advertiser's purpose...
"On the ShadowMan 2 website, the game is described as incorporating "fierce and gruesome" fighting. It involves users playing a New York policeman who has a "living dead" alter ago who is seeking a confrontation with the devil. He has magic and voodoo weapons to help him."
Anyhow, imagining trying to buy an ad in every graveyard in the country...
I've used cameras in museums before, the only got annoyed when flash came on.
not that I wanted it to, it does so by itself
Great, now you've given someone the idea to write a program that will set the phone to vibrate at the touch of a button.
*bbbzzzz* oh no, that's just my phone...
And the mandatory comment about it bluescreening in the middle of the act...
as always, mac will be one step ahead with the iBrator...
That is, assuming your prospective employeer isn't a mac based company.
You know, you can also OC your texas instruments calculators?
Solder a chip onto the board to change the frequency of the CPU and presto, twice as fast. Woohooo, look at boulder dash 86 fly!
newscientist.com also has an article about it up. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns999 91783
I have a pile of 30 dollar coins sitting in front of me,
Its somehow more stylish to pull a few gold coins out of a pouch and slap them on the counter.
Who said we'd inflate the balloon? mars has a 1/100th of the air pressure, using a few stiff wires and the thinnest mylar you can find, I bet that you could hold a vaccuum in that sort of pressure.
interestingly, since you need only a 100 times more volume, which equates to 100^(1/3) times as much volume on earth, it won't really have to be as big.
I think about 4-5 times as large in a single dimension.
Heh, it would probably still be as big as the queen emeraldas!
true, but show me how to manufacture nantubules in large enough quantities to do that :), heh, and I'll just show you how to manufacture diamond blades...
But yeah, that's what they said about carbon fiber,
I think also that diamond is strong enough to build the space elevator.
Oh yes, one more thing,
I'm curious as to whether an Ekranoplane would work better (plane that uses the surface pressure effect to lift, like a cross between a hovercraft and plane),
hum, come to think of it, it probably won't, the wings probably would probably have to be too high off the ground for safety to be able to compress the thin atmosphere to the point where it provides lift off the ground.... assuming the speed of sound is less on mars than on earth.
If the speed of sound was faster (which I'm thinking it is now), it might work.
Does X-plane simulate ekranoplanes?
Helicopters won't work well on mars, you'll need to have your props spinning 10 times faster to get the same lift, which will be somewhat diffucult, no?
It might work actually, but AFAIK there aren't any easily manufacturable materials that will stand up to the centripetal forces, since there will be 100 times as much force on the end of the prop (centripetal force is the square of velocity). You might be able to do this by increasing the surface area of the prop (longer blades, or more blades).
Also, nasa's probes once they get into the atmosphere still use parachutes and rockets to slow down to a decent speed and then giant inflatable bubbles to bounce along, but you only use that when you're below a few hundred knots. In the article, it says, that you'll be going 400 mph in a well designed plane, there's no way you're gonna just bounce around if you hit the ground like that... Same inertia, right? imagine that its like having 10 times more inertia...
also, I've seen a few articles, he mentions red sky on mars.
I've seen no good proof to believe the sky is red, if its because the ground is red, think about the earth, in the middle of a desert, or forest, is the sky yellow or green? looking at that, you'll often think they'll be bluer than at the beach (where it tends to look grey, I live at a beach town).
Because the colour of the sky is caused by Raleigh scattering (or other scattering effects), the effect (based on the size distribution of particles in the atmosphere) is the same on Mars as it is Earth.
Somewhere, if you hunt around for photos from the surface of mars, and correct using say, photoshop, for the colour (look at the parts of the probe you can see in the picture and return them to their original colours, usually white or metal, unless its an american flag), the sky will be blue.
I really don't consider this is a troll, even though most /. users would.
I agree, if you're an idiot and don't read through, you should get smacked upside the head.
then again, there should also be a way to also be part of the service and not have to breach your privacy.
at first I thought this was referring to The Descent of the Anansi (someone said it was pulpy, personally I like it.) (i have this thing for near future books, like Clarke's A Fall of Moondust, Sheffield's Cold as Ice, etc, if you know of any mail me), but after reading I realized it referred to electrically charged tethers without a weight on the end. It should be possible, I think, to electrically charge (or not) the tether and allow it to reel itself out without a motor, I think that's what their plan is anyways. I think its a great idea, but from what I heard the wire can get mighty hot, I think I saw a picture of it once. it was a white glowing filament that was starting to break up. or I might just be imagining things. I wonder how they're going to deal with the voltage potential of millions of volts thought a 1.22 mm aluminium wire, without having it boil away like the world's longest fuse.
Who and what is this judge precendent over? I was unsure of whether this was a judge in the US or a corporate judge. In any case, this judge seems to be a BS spouting lackey of corporatism (just another example of the internet becoming .commercialized). In any case, I may hate theism, but I must quote Voltaire here, "I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend your right to say it unto my death" ... especially if you registered the domain in good faith and have a valid use of it. Why must stupidity prevail? oh yeah, capitalist government. In this case, since corporations are so favored, can a person create a company named after the domain name they buy, and simply use that as the company's site, like jasonswebcam incorporated. It might also be effective if you sue and have the domain transferred from yourself to the company, in case someone else wants to take the domain name away later. Oh look, the judges already gave us this domain name, they ruled that it was ours. not yours. nyah nyah.
Uhh... ok, maybe I'll just clean up this rant, and submit it to slashdot to post on the main page. I don't think it'll get the coverage here it deserves.