Word (and the entire office suite for that matter) for Linux would in no way further Microsoft's OS monopoly. Think about this:
If Microsoft were to be split into two or more companies (which we can all agree would be a solution), then it would be in the best interest for the non-operating systems division to release as much software as they could for as many operating systems as they could, with the obvious cost concerns in mind. The reason is they would want people to have as much choice in every other aspect of their computers other than software they design.
So what would happen then, if we force Microsoft to support other OS's in all of their non-OS software? They behave like multiple companies. If people want to run Windows with Office, and IE, they can. On the other hand, if they just really like Office, they could run Debian with Office and Lynx if they were so inclined. Each MS product would be judged on its own merit, which is fine. MS knows this, which is exactly why they don't want to have to do it, since the majority of the software just doesn't measure up.
The file formats would be good for us, as in those that are already familiar with and or using Linux, however, for Microsoft to better make reparations for them, as in those who are not familiar with Linux at all, it would be necessary to provide Office (and maybe IE too) for Linux. That way, people can make the jump incrementally to free (as in beer, since that's what most people care about) software and slowly take back their pocketbooks from Microsoft's grasp.
Could someone please explain why Sony was so pissed about emulators? Certainly the first gut reaction is that sony would be pissed, but the bottom line is that sony loses money selling systems. Every console is sold at a loss. In terms of people pirating games, the emulators don't make it much easier, just about anyone can do a true disc copy with errors in place, and forgo the need for a mod chip.
The way I see it, all it means is sony would make more money by seling a higher number of games and a fewer number of systems, and as a small side note, someone else would make a little money.
It seems to me that the only one getting screwed here is sega, since they end up selling people systems and no games.
I have to say that THE shot (or style, really) that got me most inspired to study film is the evil cam, where we see the view of an unknown omnster trampling his way up to a victim. I recently heard that it was done by tying the camera to a 2 by 4. That blew my mind!! Anyway, was it difficult working with all of Sam Ramis's camera work?
After 2 years of ECE, I got kicked out of school for bad grades for a year. The truth is, if I really enjoyed it, I would have done much better. I realized that the main problem was I was following someone else's script. I had absorbed all of the praise for engineering as a kid, and internalized it as my own desires. When I thought I enjoyed it, I was really just approval seeking towards my parents.
Now this year I am treating as if I chose to take a year off. I am making it a time for figuring out exactly what I want to do. There is actually a pretty good chance I'll end up finishing my degree, but if I end up deciding I want to be a tap dancer, I'll do that.
I think after you graduate you should refuse at first to take a job in CS. Get something that you know you don't want to do for the rest of your life, but is ok for a year or so, and has no after work stress. Then make a schedule that ends with you figuring out what it is you want to do with your life, that includes a lot of research but does not rely on logic to make your decision. At the time designated just pick your path and stick with it until you make it or fail miserably. If you fail, oh well, find something else and go at it again. You may decide to go back to CS. If you do, it will be because YOU chose it, which is the most important thing of all.
You wouldn't necessarily need real time compression.
If each camera or small cluster of cameras had a storage unit with 2x the space needed for one day, then you could store one day and compress the other, then send the data over to central one day late. Of course, I don't know a whole lot about compression, and I'm working under the assumption that real time compression is slower for some reason. If it takes more than a day to compress a days worth anyway, then you still have the same problem.
Yeah, what people don't get is that government back doors don't just allow the government to see your messages, they also make it easier for hackers to see your messages. In fact, I think that's the spin we should try to put on this. Use that anti-hacker zeitgeist to get people against this law.
All of these stories are used in this manner because the writers intended them to be used in this manner. The writers saw people abusing science by creating technology that crossed or approached moral boundaries. Then when technologists come to that moral boundary later in the real world, they can say "we don't want a HAL on our hands, lets prevent that by doing this."
This is slightly off topic, But I've been thinking about it for a while. What if someone made a worm that behaved like an unitelligent life form. It would send some random (but predetermined) instructions to the processor, then make some judgement on whether it has more RAM than other instances of the program to survive. If it does, It would spawn more instances that are like itself, but altered slightly in the random instruction portion. Eventually, one may randomly "figure out" how to copy itself to another computer on the network.
I realize it would take millions of generations before this happened, but once it did, it might become a very robust worm, and one that eats a lot of memory. All it would take is a few dedicated computers and some incredible Darwinian selection methods for it to occur.
George Carlin had a joke in his ways to keep people on their toes segment. I think it was "next time someone asks you the time say: 'it's either 6:30 or Mickey's got a hardon!'" since only the minute hand was his hand and everything else was just a black pin.
Ok, what direcTV did is not exactly the same. They were much nastier. also, the people who were effected by direcTV were not hosts to some virus. They were willing participants. An equivalent would be the DVD CCA putting out a virus to kill DeCSS. If a company like microsoft were to do something like this to viruses, it would only close the door for that virus. It wouldn't kill the machine, or write "Game Over" or anything fun like that. It also wouldn't close any other doors, as they would still be unknown. As far as an arms race goes, it would be no different than now. Except, now that I think about it...
Virus writers would close the door they came in in advance and write in another door that would be extremely hard to find. The worm would still infect other machines, and it would be a very long time before the other back door kicks in. People would think the worm they got was a purposeful fix worm, when in actuallity it only would be a matter of time before it became a zombie. Now that would be a smart virus. Of course, the hardest part would be giving the new back door the functionality needed while effectively hiding itself.
Great sentiment, unfortunately, I don't see how it would help things relating to the DMCA. the DMCA deals with the methods of protecting IP, specifically copyright, which may not even make sense to give solely to individuals, but even if we did refuse corporations copyrights, the horrendously strict methods of protection that the DMCA gives would still exist.
If a company employs an individual with an important piece of copyrighted work, like a movie or a cd, the company would still have it in their best interest to prevent people from copying it by whatever means necessary. Therefore, they would still want to prevent people out there in the fields from finding some way to break their encryption. The legislation would still benefit them since law preventing such activity means the encryption can just be ROT-13.
When CD protection schemes like this are released wo/titles, we should boycott the record company that released it. Its not fair to release a scheme preventing fair use without a warning.
I know this may seem strange, but think about it. The only tech issue the public at large understands to any degree is napster. napster napster napster. Now there may be legal action against DeCSS stuff, and Sklyarov may be in jail, but no one seems to know about that. What most people do know, though, is that mp3s exist and have some sort of controversy associated with them.
So what happens if people get prosecuted for this particular violation of the DMCA? it makes the news. People hear about how they can't even rip their own cds and play them on that $200 rio they just bought. People might have wasted their money. Now of course, if people are prosecuted for violation of the DMCA, which incidently they did break, they will be convicted. The next thing to do is appeal up to the supreme court on the grounds that the law is unconstitutional for all the various reasons that we/. folks are so familiar with.
If the Court has any sense, they'll agree, and the DMCA will be out of our lives.
If the people prosecuted as violating the DMCA win it is possible that the law is never appealed and eventually we all get screwed when the US completes its deterioration into a corporate republic.
They can all be used to open shrink-wrap, which is intended to keep people from copying DVDs, CDs, Software, and other Intellectual Property. Knives, Keys, Scissors, and other metallic, plastic, or wooden sharp objects are circumvention devices, and need to be removed from our society.
I haven't seen anything mentioned about an Onion Protocol. I remember a while back there was some talk about a project to re-do all of the basic TCP/IP stuff with totally secure format. I wonder how slow that would be in comparison. Regardless, it sure beats not trading at all. It seems somewhat ludicrous to me to go after all of this with legal weapons, but I really don't see anyone doing things any other way, except possibly Microsoft, but they're also using business practices. I guess really the philosophy with this kind of thing that I like most is the DSS hacking. But in that case, it looks like the hackers have won. So I don't know how anyone can ever hope to keep control of semi-private data.
I can't wait for parents to live vicariously through their children playing games. Could you imagine your dad getting exited over your domination of "Crazy Taxi"?
Them some pretty mean accusations, but where's the proof? Reading the article makes it sound like this stuff all definately happened. I was convinced for like two seconds. But then I realized, hey, maybe he didn't actually do it?
I mean hey, everyone is going to be using XP, what with its revolutionary licensing scheme, its built in support for encoding Windows Media, and its ability to use raw sockets, we may as well just jump on the bandwagon now.
Seriously though, I mean, Microsoft has forced its will on us before, but at least it was one thing at a time. This is really starting to add up. Also, isn't that conflicting logic between support of raw sockets and lack of support for java. With sockets, they say a few people wanted it, now they're saying only a few people would need it?
Actually, when Morpheus explains that they use people as batteries, he says "combined with a form of fusion, they had all the energy they needed." Now IANANP, but I think that fusion would provide much more energy than the excess gleaned from humans.
Wow. You've commented on a lot of articles recently. I mean, I was looking at your info and you comment A LOT. But it always seems to be about games...
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Word (and the entire office suite for that matter) for Linux would in no way further Microsoft's OS monopoly. Think about this:
If Microsoft were to be split into two or more companies (which we can all agree would be a solution), then it would be in the best interest for the non-operating systems division to release as much software as they could for as many operating systems as they could, with the obvious cost concerns in mind. The reason is they would want people to have as much choice in every other aspect of their computers other than software they design.
So what would happen then, if we force Microsoft to support other OS's in all of their non-OS software? They behave like multiple companies. If people want to run Windows with Office, and IE, they can. On the other hand, if they just really like Office, they could run Debian with Office and Lynx if they were so inclined. Each MS product would be judged on its own merit, which is fine. MS knows this, which is exactly why they don't want to have to do it, since the majority of the software just doesn't measure up.
The file formats would be good for us, as in those that are already familiar with and or using Linux, however, for Microsoft to better make reparations for them, as in those who are not familiar with Linux at all, it would be necessary to provide Office (and maybe IE too) for Linux. That way, people can make the jump incrementally to free (as in beer, since that's what most people care about) software and slowly take back their pocketbooks from Microsoft's grasp.
Could someone please explain why Sony was so pissed about emulators? Certainly the first gut reaction is that sony would be pissed, but the bottom line is that sony loses money selling systems. Every console is sold at a loss. In terms of people pirating games, the emulators don't make it much easier, just about anyone can do a true disc copy with errors in place, and forgo the need for a mod chip.
The way I see it, all it means is sony would make more money by seling a higher number of games and a fewer number of systems, and as a small side note, someone else would make a little money.
It seems to me that the only one getting screwed here is sega, since they end up selling people systems and no games.
I have to say that THE shot (or style, really) that got me most inspired to study film is the evil cam, where we see the view of an unknown omnster trampling his way up to a victim. I recently heard that it was done by tying the camera to a 2 by 4. That blew my mind!! Anyway, was it difficult working with all of Sam Ramis's camera work?
After 2 years of ECE, I got kicked out of school for bad grades for a year. The truth is, if I really enjoyed it, I would have done much better. I realized that the main problem was I was following someone else's script. I had absorbed all of the praise for engineering as a kid, and internalized it as my own desires. When I thought I enjoyed it, I was really just approval seeking towards my parents.
Now this year I am treating as if I chose to take a year off. I am making it a time for figuring out exactly what I want to do. There is actually a pretty good chance I'll end up finishing my degree, but if I end up deciding I want to be a tap dancer, I'll do that.
I think after you graduate you should refuse at first to take a job in CS. Get something that you know you don't want to do for the rest of your life, but is ok for a year or so, and has no after work stress. Then make a schedule that ends with you figuring out what it is you want to do with your life, that includes a lot of research but does not rely on logic to make your decision. At the time designated just pick your path and stick with it until you make it or fail miserably. If you fail, oh well, find something else and go at it again. You may decide to go back to CS. If you do, it will be because YOU chose it, which is the most important thing of all.
You wouldn't necessarily need real time compression.
If each camera or small cluster of cameras had a storage unit with 2x the space needed for one day, then you could store one day and compress the other, then send the data over to central one day late. Of course, I don't know a whole lot about compression, and I'm working under the assumption that real time compression is slower for some reason. If it takes more than a day to compress a days worth anyway, then you still have the same problem.
Yeah, what people don't get is that government back doors don't just allow the government to see your messages, they also make it easier for hackers to see your messages. In fact, I think that's the spin we should try to put on this. Use that anti-hacker zeitgeist to get people against this law.
All of these stories are used in this manner because the writers intended them to be used in this manner. The writers saw people abusing science by creating technology that crossed or approached moral boundaries. Then when technologists come to that moral boundary later in the real world, they can say "we don't want a HAL on our hands, lets prevent that by doing this."
This is slightly off topic, But I've been thinking about it for a while. What if someone made a worm that behaved like an unitelligent life form. It would send some random (but predetermined) instructions to the processor, then make some judgement on whether it has more RAM than other instances of the program to survive. If it does, It would spawn more instances that are like itself, but altered slightly in the random instruction portion. Eventually, one may randomly "figure out" how to copy itself to another computer on the network.
I realize it would take millions of generations before this happened, but once it did, it might become a very robust worm, and one that eats a lot of memory. All it would take is a few dedicated computers and some incredible Darwinian selection methods for it to occur.
George Carlin had a joke in his ways to keep people on their toes segment. I think it was "next time someone asks you the time say: 'it's either 6:30 or Mickey's got a hardon!'" since only the minute hand was his hand and everything else was just a black pin.
Ok, what direcTV did is not exactly the same. They were much nastier. also, the people who were effected by direcTV were not hosts to some virus. They were willing participants. An equivalent would be the DVD CCA putting out a virus to kill DeCSS. If a company like microsoft were to do something like this to viruses, it would only close the door for that virus. It wouldn't kill the machine, or write "Game Over" or anything fun like that. It also wouldn't close any other doors, as they would still be unknown. As far as an arms race goes, it would be no different than now. Except, now that I think about it...
Virus writers would close the door they came in in advance and write in another door that would be extremely hard to find. The worm would still infect other machines, and it would be a very long time before the other back door kicks in. People would think the worm they got was a purposeful fix worm, when in actuallity it only would be a matter of time before it became a zombie. Now that would be a smart virus. Of course, the hardest part would be giving the new back door the functionality needed while effectively hiding itself.
A beowoulf cluster of these!
or if banjo then slashdotted Mandolin?
Great sentiment, unfortunately, I don't see how it would help things relating to the DMCA. the DMCA deals with the methods of protecting IP, specifically copyright, which may not even make sense to give solely to individuals, but even if we did refuse corporations copyrights, the horrendously strict methods of protection that the DMCA gives would still exist.
If a company employs an individual with an important piece of copyrighted work, like a movie or a cd, the company would still have it in their best interest to prevent people from copying it by whatever means necessary. Therefore, they would still want to prevent people out there in the fields from finding some way to break their encryption. The legislation would still benefit them since law preventing such activity means the encryption can just be ROT-13.
When CD protection schemes like this are released wo/titles, we should boycott the record company that released it. Its not fair to release a scheme preventing fair use without a warning.
I know this may seem strange, but think about it. The only tech issue the public at large understands to any degree is napster. napster napster napster. Now there may be legal action against DeCSS stuff, and Sklyarov may be in jail, but no one seems to know about that. What most people do know, though, is that mp3s exist and have some sort of controversy associated with them.
/. folks are so familiar with.
So what happens if people get prosecuted for this particular violation of the DMCA? it makes the news. People hear about how they can't even rip their own cds and play them on that $200 rio they just bought. People might have wasted their money. Now of course, if people are prosecuted for violation of the DMCA, which incidently they did break, they will be convicted. The next thing to do is appeal up to the supreme court on the grounds that the law is unconstitutional for all the various reasons that we
If the Court has any sense, they'll agree, and the DMCA will be out of our lives.
If the people prosecuted as violating the DMCA win it is possible that the law is never appealed and eventually we all get screwed when the US completes its deterioration into a corporate republic.
They can all be used to open shrink-wrap, which is intended to keep people from copying DVDs, CDs, Software, and other Intellectual Property. Knives, Keys, Scissors, and other metallic, plastic, or wooden sharp objects are circumvention devices, and need to be removed from our society.
Think of the children!!!
I haven't seen anything mentioned about an Onion Protocol. I remember a while back there was some talk about a project to re-do all of the basic TCP/IP stuff with totally secure format. I wonder how slow that would be in comparison. Regardless, it sure beats not trading at all. It seems somewhat ludicrous to me to go after all of this with legal weapons, but I really don't see anyone doing things any other way, except possibly Microsoft, but they're also using business practices. I guess really the philosophy with this kind of thing that I like most is the DSS hacking. But in that case, it looks like the hackers have won. So I don't know how anyone can ever hope to keep control of semi-private data.
Isn't it B A B A? idiot
I can't wait for parents to live vicariously through their children playing games. Could you imagine your dad getting exited over your domination of "Crazy Taxi"?
Them some pretty mean accusations, but where's the proof? Reading the article makes it sound like this stuff all definately happened. I was convinced for like two seconds. But then I realized, hey, maybe he didn't actually do it?
sorry, clarification, shoulda previewed better. sockets, a few people wanted it, java, only a few would need it.
I mean hey, everyone is going to be using XP, what with its revolutionary licensing scheme, its built in support for encoding Windows Media, and its ability to use raw sockets, we may as well just jump on the bandwagon now. Seriously though, I mean, Microsoft has forced its will on us before, but at least it was one thing at a time. This is really starting to add up. Also, isn't that conflicting logic between support of raw sockets and lack of support for java. With sockets, they say a few people wanted it, now they're saying only a few people would need it?
Actually, when Morpheus explains that they use people as batteries, he says "combined with a form of fusion, they had all the energy they needed." Now IANANP, but I think that fusion would provide much more energy than the excess gleaned from humans.
I wholeheartedly agree
Wow. You've commented on a lot of articles recently. I mean, I was looking at your info and you comment A LOT. But it always seems to be about games...