If you slap a large photo of a building on a texture, then it will be photo realistic as long as the geometry is fairly flat, and you don't get too close.
No offense to Portman, but have I been reading wrong graphic novels?
Dunno. Have you read V for Vendetta? There are a lot of historical and literary references ranging from Homer and Shakespeare to the Rolling Stones. Maybe Hyper-intellectual is a bit of an exaggeration, but they're certainly intellectual.
Alan Moore is quite clearly trying to turn the comic book into a recognised an artform in its own right.
reformatting a hard drive is non-obvious, but rinstalling windows should just require inserting the CD. It will detect your hardware, and any new PC will not have the software or settings set up anyway.
I'm not so sure. This is the argument against DRM. When it's poorly implemented the only option is to circumvent it. Sometimes it prevent you from doing what you want to do and what any reasonable person would feel should be allowed.
If circumvention is legal then it's not so much of a problem, but the current situation seems to be that it is not legal.
He may still approve of DRM in general, but I suspect this incident has allowed him to see at least some of the arguments against it.
My idea is that all the ISPs set up an organisation, and change root servers en masse. It would be a viable given an international ISP association. And that would be viable given that we already have a national one for most, if not all nations.
They just have to get sufficiently fed up with ICANN to change. It's easier to try and force ICANN to do what they want, but if ICANN totally refused and demanded unreasonable concessions, they would no longer be running the root servers.
But seriously - analogies have their uses. They're very useful for illustratng a point. Sadly when they're used on Slashdot, people see a need to bash them about until they're "accurate", which is rather missing the point. Analogies by their nature are not accurate. They offer analogous situations.
They're useful as mental tools, but the fact that a rule applies in one situation does not mean the same rule applies to an analogy. This is what slashdotters need to realise.
SCO seem to have been saying some pretty weird stuff. And occasionally quite insulting stuff. They seem to be saying that Linux programmers deliberately copied SCO code and tried to hide the fact rather than accidentally copied it.
On the other hand, groklaw and Slashdot have hardly been impartial observers in this. They must have at least some sort of case for the trial to have got this far.
Perhaps we should ignore this public slagging match and let the kernel hackers rewrite the code that the court finds is infringing after the trial.
Copyright law does have a concept of "public performance", which probably comes into play here.
If you're just paying for a room, then it's not a public performance. Every member is going to be quite thoroughly vetted and it's quite clearly private. If you're allowing anyone to come and play for a fixed cost then it's public even if you're working on a break even basis. If anyone can play and you let them in for free, then it's still public, but the rules they used wouldn't have required them to pay for this anyway.
They have effective control anyway. If they all decided to point their DNS servers to a certain place, then that would be adefacto domain name registry. I'm sure the same applies to IP addresses.
Sort out some fair means of representation, and get them to select a root administrator. They all have the same ultimate goal - a stable internet - and they al understand the internet. The same cannot be said of the US government or the UN.
The internet uses ICANN solely because all the ISPs accept that they are responsible for assigning names and numbers.
But each country has its own organisation responsible for aspects of the internet in that country, atleast handling domain name CCTLDs. These are usually representative of the ISPs and other major internet organisations in the given country.
It's quite feasable for representatives of each country to agree to set up their own DNS system. With support from some major US ISPs as well, they could set up a new de-facto internet authority. This would be an extreme option, but technically feasable.
The people in charge only rule with the permissionof those they rule.
This isn't AOL new user tech support. This is commercial technical support that professionals use. Most of their callers know the basic admin stuff. They call tech support when they have an actual problem.
I should point out IANAL. This is just my understanding of the law. I'm quite liberal, so I agree sometimes the law is a little too harsh in these areas.
The speed camera thing (at least where I live) seems to be considered legal. I think the point is that the cameras are there to discourage speeding. If you know where they are then you aren't going to speed so they still do their job.
To assist people in finding a drug dealer? You may get arrested, and charged with aiding and abetting.
To assist the police in arresting a drug dealer? You may get comended for your civic responsibility.
For general information? People will think you're weird.
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If you slap a large photo of a building on a texture, then it will be photo realistic as long as the geometry is fairly flat, and you don't get too close.
This seems likr a lot of effort to go through to not do nay work.
No offense to Portman, but have I been reading wrong graphic novels?
Dunno. Have you read V for Vendetta? There are a lot of historical and literary references ranging from Homer and Shakespeare to the Rolling Stones. Maybe Hyper-intellectual is a bit of an exaggeration, but they're certainly intellectual.
Alan Moore is quite clearly trying to turn the comic book into a recognised an artform in its own right.
It's Natalie Portman, man! Have you no sense of history?
That, Hot Grits, and Beowulf clusters are the only things that matter!
True. Even installing Ad-Aware and running a virus checker doesn't take more than an hour
reformatting a hard drive is non-obvious, but rinstalling windows should just require inserting the CD. It will detect your hardware, and any new PC will not have the software or settings set up anyway.
I'm not so sure. This is the argument against DRM. When it's poorly implemented the only option is to circumvent it. Sometimes it prevent you from doing what you want to do and what any reasonable person would feel should be allowed.
If circumvention is legal then it's not so much of a problem, but the current situation seems to be that it is not legal.
He may still approve of DRM in general, but I suspect this incident has allowed him to see at least some of the arguments against it.
Only to a techy who grew up in the era of floppy disks.
To most people it sounds liek an impenetarable acronym.
Seems to me the character and script were written for a woman.
This is not original Galactica. It's a new series that happens to have the same name and premise.
My idea is that all the ISPs set up an organisation, and change root servers en masse. It would be a viable given an international ISP association. And that would be viable given that we already have a national one for most, if not all nations.
They just have to get sufficiently fed up with ICANN to change. It's easier to try and force ICANN to do what they want, but if ICANN totally refused and demanded unreasonable concessions, they would no longer be running the root servers.
Hrm....Maybe we should drop the stupid similies?
Why? I like the sock sorcerer one..
But seriously - analogies have their uses. They're very useful for illustratng a point. Sadly when they're used on Slashdot, people see a need to bash them about until they're "accurate", which is rather missing the point. Analogies by their nature are not accurate. They offer analogous situations.
They're useful as mental tools, but the fact that a rule applies in one situation does not mean the same rule applies to an analogy. This is what slashdotters need to realise.
SCO seem to have been saying some pretty weird stuff. And occasionally quite insulting stuff. They seem to be saying that Linux programmers deliberately copied SCO code and tried to hide the fact rather than accidentally copied it.
On the other hand, groklaw and Slashdot have hardly been impartial observers in this. They must have at least some sort of case for the trial to have got this far.
Perhaps we should ignore this public slagging match and let the kernel hackers rewrite the code that the court finds is infringing after the trial.
By IBM PC, I mean one of these. Not a compatible.
All things being equal, I will go for the one with a nicer name.
Blu Ray has a sexier name. HD-DVD sounds like somethign for an IBM PC.
There's also public performance. Perhaps a bit of a stretch, but it could stick.
Copyright law does have a concept of "public performance", which probably comes into play here.
If you're just paying for a room, then it's not a public performance. Every member is going to be quite thoroughly vetted and it's quite clearly private. If you're allowing anyone to come and play for a fixed cost then it's public even if you're working on a break even basis. If anyone can play and you let them in for free, then it's still public, but the rules they used wouldn't have required them to pay for this anyway.
Pretty much everything beyond the most basic concepts is left to the Storyteller to deal with.
I thought that was the point.
Thanks...if I wanted to write my own game system I would.
But this gives you a nice framework in which to set your story, and allows a situation to evolve rather than stick to the whims of the GM.
Yes it does mattewr. They might be messing/manipulating it out of incompetence.
They have effective control anyway. If they all decided to point their DNS servers to a certain place, then that would be adefacto domain name registry. I'm sure the same applies to IP addresses.
Sort out some fair means of representation, and get them to select a root administrator. They all have the same ultimate goal - a stable internet - and they al understand the internet. The same cannot be said of the US government or the UN.
while wearing a shirt that said "create a carbon copy of this car and drive it around without the car designers receiving due compensation."
In a locality where doing so would be against the law.
Sigh.
Look. It's an analogy. If you want a more accurate comparison, how about linking to illegal mp3 files from a site called mp3s4free.
Pointing is analogous to linking. It's not the same.
A car is analagous to an mp3 file. It's not the same.
Stealing is analogous to copyright infringement. It's not the same.
This thread is about whether pointing to a crime is in itself a crime. Not whether copying is stealing.
Or the US?
The internet uses ICANN solely because all the ISPs accept that they are responsible for assigning names and numbers.
But each country has its own organisation responsible for aspects of the internet in that country, atleast handling domain name CCTLDs. These are usually representative of the ISPs and other major internet organisations in the given country.
It's quite feasable for representatives of each country to agree to set up their own DNS system. With support from some major US ISPs as well, they could set up a new de-facto internet authority. This would be an extreme option, but technically feasable.
The people in charge only rule with the permissionof those they rule.
This isn't AOL new user tech support. This is commercial technical support that professionals use. Most of their callers know the basic admin stuff. They call tech support when they have an actual problem.
I should point out IANAL. This is just my understanding of the law. I'm quite liberal, so I agree sometimes the law is a little too harsh in these areas.
The speed camera thing (at least where I live) seems to be considered legal. I think the point is that the cameras are there to discourage speeding. If you know where they are then you aren't going to speed so they still do their job.
Depends. Why are you pointing this out?
To assist people in finding a drug dealer? You may get arrested, and charged with aiding and abetting.
To assist the police in arresting a drug dealer? You may get comended for your civic responsibility.
For general information? People will think you're weird.
So, he set up a website called "mp3s4free", and genuinely believed that the songs he was linking to were legal? I find that hard to believe.