As the article in many more words states, It is not simple for DRM enabled sytems like Palladium to differentiate between whats actually illegal or not.
They require that the software that will interact with the DRM features actually be 'trusted'. Unless they want all software written for Palladium to be 'MPAA/RIAA' approved, anyone can write 'untrustful' code. Only one link in the chain has to be broken for it to fail completely.
So, write 'trusted' p2p file sharing.
I am afraid that someone like MS will require you to pay in the future to have the right to write 'trusted' code, or any code won't run at all.
So, what makes them so eager to try again? The UO2 team had millions of lines of code already written and were well on the way to release a sequel. Then they canned it, to the chagrin of the developement team, who as i remember had a nice 'funeral pyre' for it, pictures were well distrobuted on the web.
Well, I don't think that kids are more gullible when it comes to adds, i think that they are more compulsive when it comes to obtaining property, toys. They know its an add, but they decide they want it, and aren't bothered with the fact that its just an add.
Disney et al, already know this, why do you think that advertisements for toys are so prevalent in society. heck the toys are their own adds!
Adults plan and compare items before purchase(well usually) while kids are more impressed by pure visual and cultural stimulus.
'Remote' warfare and similar techniques rely on either direct control from an off site command center or an artificial intelegence to guide the vehicle/robot. Artificial intelligence is not yet worthy, and probly will not be in the near future to act in a battle situation, especially when orders must be changes or ignored. Remote control is highly succeptible (and indeed all electronics) to electronic warfare, cutting communication channels.
The military has had its greatest success with small unmanned probes and planes, but these are of a limited use. To be effective in many scenarios you must hold a military presence in an area to acheive victory, this is where humans are iddeal.
I would be really dissapointed if Hollings is ever re-elected. The point of an elected government is to get rid of those who want to lower our freedom, and this guy is definetly going down that road, and dragging everyone he can with him.
We can rant and rave on/. all we want, but if we don't send the message in our ballots also, we have given up the battle.
I sincerely hope that the people in his district are well aware of Sen. Holling's attrocities.
If i remember correctly that may be hard to do. Media player these days has a unique ID built in that MS and maybe others use to track what you listen/watch. While you can disable this Id from being sent to the websites you download from, it is entirely possible that a unique ID is required to connect to MS for codecs.
Is the show right before it. Family Guy to me is a hilariously funny show, but i know a lot of people who hate it, and i can see the same type of humor definitly not carrying over into the Tick type of humor, but them maybe they are closer than I think, well to each his own. I will be watching them both and laughing.
Its like this.. napster clones keep popping up, each one broken down by lawsuits, each on costs the RIAA and cronies money, yet each one they beat down causes more to rise in its place! So the RIAA stops seeing the lawsuit business as worth the effort as it starts impacting their most precious (and unfortunatly deep) resource, their pockets. Things like this happen all the time in society.
The use of fiber on motherboards and similar devices has some huge advantages. First board density would quadruple. With DWDM whole busses from chip to chip would be replaced with single fiber lines. This would increase the number of components drasticly and also reduce electrical feedback from bus crossovers. Imagine building boards where the only consideration is where to place things asthetically?
The downsides are of course that every chip will have to have fiber PHY built in? or at least have on for every chip. This could be an even worse problem in the long run.
I agree, its NOT a problem with guns. Its a problem with schools and the society that builds around them. The problem with schools is the only adults in them are the teachers/security guards who the children despise. How are our kids to grow and form into adults when they have little guidance, and form most of their opinions in groups of their peers who are no more learned in the ways of the world then they are. No wonder kids want to rebel so much when they get to college. They have had vitually no guidance and have spent the last 12 years in groups of other kids, where parents have no control over what their children hear.
In past generations before the modern school system kids spend as much time working with parents and adults, and formed their ideas and guidlines similar to their peers, who were not just kids.
Combine this seperation of kids from adults, with a blood thirsty media trying to get all their money through targeted advertising, and you are going to have a mess.
In this light the system is flawed, despite the fact it works so well for many.
Mordy
Maybe A.C. Clark and Stephen Baxter were pretty close to reality in the Light of Other Days.
Now just adapt this stuf to work on contact like eye enhancements....
You have probly the best point here. Microsoft is very aware that a word processor can only do so many things, and are constantly changing little annoying things in new versions(like the whole.doc format) so that if their new products are bought by any large ammount of people the users of the older version create chaos. In fact i get nothing useful from Word that i get from WordPad which come with the OS.
Besides, we are all suckers to new and shiny things, thanks to wonderful marketing. No matter that something several years old can get a job done just as well as the new shiny one, we'll still buy the new shiny one.
The new software upgrade cycle is a necessity in many fields, as almost all technology worth developing can always get better, but what is wrong is minimal changes but being forced to pay a hefty fee for new versions. How many ways can you improve a word processor? I don't want to buy another one until i sit there and think and it writes what i think! (oh wait, i use GVIM, thats close enough and FREE)
mordain bravely lurking
Instead of "Where do you want to go today" M$ should adopt the Everquest/Sony logo "You're in OUR world now"
More fitting considering this.NET crappola.
Hogwash. Internet hardware.. especially routers and such, change on a yearly basis. If a peice of hardware lasts 5 years in a provider/backbone, its probly changed roles various times, downgraded each time.
See, there is no real legal basis (other than if they buy the law, wich they will try to do) behind stopping people from emulating a server. Verant just wants to keep people stuck with their servers so they get their money payment. But even then verant shouldn't be too concerned. The EQ servers are expensive machines and if any large player base tries to use the Hackerquest server who really has an expensiver computer to dedicate to it? (well looking at the other game servers out there i wouldn't be that suprised if there were) Also the game is not quite the same when you leave the real base rules./shrug
Since this whole language seems to only work for programs on the.NET thingymajigger, its sole survival depends.NET. Well,.NET seems to only be a way for M$ to gain more control and exclusive rights to a part of your daily computer activities and the checkbook, sorry i mean debit card, tied to them. So if all the programs on.NET are to be C# (c-pound) based, if.NET gets any popularity and current products are preasured to move... you can immagine the power M$ will gain. Unfutunatly the huddled masses are easy to move... not everybody with a checkbook knows anything.... So.NET may thrive, and in doing so destroy the small developer with license fees.
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From putting RealVirus, i mean RealPlayer on my new Inspiron
As the article in many more words states, It is not simple for DRM enabled sytems like Palladium to differentiate between whats actually illegal or not.
They require that the software that will interact with the DRM features actually be 'trusted'. Unless they want all software written for Palladium to be 'MPAA/RIAA' approved, anyone can write 'untrustful' code. Only one link in the chain has to be broken for it to fail completely.
So, write 'trusted' p2p file sharing.
I am afraid that someone like MS will require you to pay in the future to have the right to write 'trusted' code, or any code won't run at all.
So, what makes them so eager to try again? The UO2 team had millions of lines of code already written and were well on the way to release a sequel. Then they canned it, to the chagrin of the developement team, who as i remember had a nice 'funeral pyre' for it, pictures were well distrobuted on the web.
Wonder if any of that code has been resurected?
Well, I don't think that kids are more gullible when it comes to adds, i think that they are more compulsive when it comes to obtaining property, toys. They know its an add, but they decide they want it, and aren't bothered with the fact that its just an add.
Disney et al, already know this, why do you think that advertisements for toys are so prevalent in society. heck the toys are their own adds!
Adults plan and compare items before purchase(well usually) while kids are more impressed by pure visual and cultural stimulus.
As a collective sigh of longing sounds over the internet the unthinkable has happened. The slashdot community has fallen in love with a law firm.
I said nothing about the state of nano technology.
'Remote' warfare and similar techniques rely on either direct control from an off site command center or an artificial intelegence to guide the vehicle/robot. Artificial intelligence is not yet worthy, and probly will not be in the near future to act in a battle situation, especially when orders must be changes or ignored. Remote control is highly succeptible (and indeed all electronics) to electronic warfare, cutting communication channels.
The military has had its greatest success with small unmanned probes and planes, but these are of a limited use. To be effective in many scenarios you must hold a military presence in an area to acheive victory, this is where humans are iddeal.
I would be really dissapointed if Hollings is ever re-elected. The point of an elected government is to get rid of those who want to lower our freedom, and this guy is definetly going down that road, and dragging everyone he can with him.
/. all we want, but if we don't send the message in our ballots also, we have given up the battle.
We can rant and rave on
I sincerely hope that the people in his district are well aware of Sen. Holling's attrocities.
If i remember correctly that may be hard to do. Media player these days has a unique ID built in that MS and maybe others use to track what you listen/watch. While you can disable this Id from being sent to the websites you download from, it is entirely possible that a unique ID is required to connect to MS for codecs.
This is just conjecture of course.
Is the show right before it. Family Guy to me is a hilariously funny show, but i know a lot of people who hate it, and i can see the same type of humor definitly not carrying over into the Tick type of humor, but them maybe they are closer than I think, well to each his own. I will be watching them both and laughing.
Its like this .. napster clones keep popping up, each one broken down by lawsuits, each on costs the RIAA and cronies money, yet each one they beat down causes more to rise in its place! So the RIAA stops seeing the lawsuit business as worth the effort as it starts impacting their most precious (and unfortunatly deep) resource, their pockets. Things like this happen all the time in society.
Seriously though, if a heat sink were to fall off, they'de be serious fire hazzards ;)
The use of fiber on motherboards and similar devices has some huge advantages. First board density would quadruple. With DWDM whole busses from chip to chip would be replaced with single fiber lines. This would increase the number of components drasticly and also reduce electrical feedback from bus crossovers. Imagine building boards where the only consideration is where to place things asthetically?
The downsides are of course that every chip will have to have fiber PHY built in? or at least have on for every chip. This could be an even worse problem in the long run.
I agree, its NOT a problem with guns. Its a problem with schools and the society that builds around them. The problem with schools is the only adults in them are the teachers/security guards who the children despise. How are our kids to grow and form into adults when they have little guidance, and form most of their opinions in groups of their peers who are no more learned in the ways of the world then they are. No wonder kids want to rebel so much when they get to college. They have had vitually no guidance and have spent the last 12 years in groups of other kids, where parents have no control over what their children hear. In past generations before the modern school system kids spend as much time working with parents and adults, and formed their ideas and guidlines similar to their peers, who were not just kids. Combine this seperation of kids from adults, with a blood thirsty media trying to get all their money through targeted advertising, and you are going to have a mess. In this light the system is flawed, despite the fact it works so well for many. Mordy
Maybe A.C. Clark and Stephen Baxter were pretty close to reality in the Light of Other Days. Now just adapt this stuf to work on contact like eye enhancements ....
Stupidity, then at least I could make money when these things are patented also. Come to think of it i would be makeing a whole LOT of money ;)
You have probly the best point here. Microsoft is very aware that a word processor can only do so many things, and are constantly changing little annoying things in new versions(like the whole .doc format) so that if their new products are bought by any large ammount of people the users of the older version create chaos. In fact i get nothing useful from Word that i get from WordPad which come with the OS.
Besides, we are all suckers to new and shiny things, thanks to wonderful marketing. No matter that something several years old can get a job done just as well as the new shiny one, we'll still buy the new shiny one.
The new software upgrade cycle is a necessity in many fields, as almost all technology worth developing can always get better, but what is wrong is minimal changes but being forced to pay a hefty fee for new versions. How many ways can you improve a word processor? I don't want to buy another one until i sit there and think and it writes what i think! (oh wait, i use GVIM, thats close enough and FREE)
mordain bravely lurking
Instead of "Where do you want to go today" M$ should adopt the Everquest/Sony logo "You're in OUR world now" More fitting considering this .NET crappola.
Hogwash. Internet hardware.. especially routers and such, change on a yearly basis. If a peice of hardware lasts 5 years in a provider/backbone, its probly changed roles various times, downgraded each time.
See, there is no real legal basis (other than if they buy the law, wich they will try to do) behind stopping people from emulating a server. Verant just wants to keep people stuck with their servers so they get their money payment. But even then verant shouldn't be too concerned. The EQ servers are expensive machines and if any large player base tries to use the Hackerquest server who really has an expensiver computer to dedicate to it? (well looking at the other game servers out there i wouldn't be that suprised if there were) Also the game is not quite the same when you leave the real base rules. /shrug
Since this whole language seems to only work for programs on the .NET thingymajigger, its sole survival depends .NET. Well, .NET seems to only be a way for M$ to gain more control and exclusive rights to a part of your daily computer activities and the checkbook, sorry i mean debit card, tied to them. So if all the programs on .NET are to be C# (c-pound) based, if .NET gets any popularity and current products are preasured to move ... you can immagine the power M$ will gain. Unfutunatly the huddled masses are easy to move ... not everybody with a checkbook knows anything.... So .NET may thrive, and in doing so destroy the small developer with license fees.