Im not going to comment on the liklyhood that this will or will not be succsessful.
If we have to choose one protection for software it would have to be copyright.
Patents basically kill any type of compentition. You could charge whatever you wanted and sue the hell out of anyone who tries to write a competeing product. It basically means that lots of profit for the patent holder and no competition driven innovation or service.
Copyright on the other hand protects a companies specific implementation of an idea. No one else can use that implementation but it doesnt prevent someone from making a compediting product.
If linux didnt exist, Microsoft probably wouldnt be trying to create new innovations for longhorn such as avalon.
Most DVDs use the dual layer capacity of current DVDs. Using this technique it would be nessesary to split many movies onto two discs. If your going to do that, why not just package one DVD and one HD-DVD.
If there is something that you are offended by on TV, no one is making you watch it. If your concerned about your kids watching something you dont want them to, just rememeber who is the parent. I sure hope your not expecting the FCC to take care of your kids.
Market forces will dictate what programming exists on television. If people want to watch content with sex, then yes you will have that on TV. If you dont like that, start your own station.
Its not new. Get outside of hollywood and you will see it used alot. However the persective is ussually of a third person (audience) in the scene but not interacting. When the camera is handheld amoung the characters it creates more of an intimate feel by bringing the audience into the scene.
As far as i can tell its not. The legal judgement is over cyber cafe distribution. Basically it states that valve cant be cut out of any cyber cafe distribtion deal.
Yeah, the disc is yours, but the IP on that disc is given to you under terms of their licsence.
If they want to stop letting you use thier software, they have the right.
But you have the right not to purchase thier software if you dont agree with the terms of thier licence.
If you dont like the terms of quickbooks, you can purchase peachtree or use one of the GPL'ed accounting packages.
Property and Intelectual Property is not the same thing, nor should it be looked at under the same rules. Software is kind of a place where both rules areas cross. The physical cd is property but the software stored on that cd is not.
The orginal half-life has to be one of the most pirated games ever. We used to play alot of CS and HL at the lan parties i went to. Some people bought the game, while many other pirated it. Without steam we could play lan games with each other just fine.
The people who orginally bought the game now use steam to play. Everyone else complains that steam sucks because they dont want to buy a copy of the game.
Al they are doing is making it harder for those who cant understand the idea that you have to buy the game to play it. If your are in one of those situations where you cant connect to the internet to activate the game, then dont buy the game. A majority of gamers have some form of access to the internet.
There are many reasons for the american healthcare system for being out of whack.
Drug research is a small part of total health care expendatiures. It is something like 5% (I cant find the source again so that may be off). The full funding is not from drug sales, but drug research is also funded by public money. So why doesnt the public have partial ownership over the patents?
Drugs are also being design as commercial products. Negitive trials have been ignored. Drug companies ghostwrite case studies for journals. Marketing has about as large of a budget as research. Is this how we want to develop drugs that impact our health?
I would propose public funding for all drug research. Then the public has already paid for the research. The drug companies can take this research and manufacter the drugs.
http://www.who.int/whr/2000/en/whr00_annex_en.pd f A comparison of world health systems, the data is from 2000 so it may be slightly out of date. The US, spends the most money, but rank 72 on the level of health. There are many, espessialy european countries that have better overall health and spend a fraction of what the US does. If you did a cost benfit anaylsis of the american health system, it wouldnt look too good.
If we were to switch to a universal system, we probably wont be saving money as much as we would reallocate it. Take it out of CEO budgets, Marketing, Malpractice insurance, and invest it in giving everyone healthcare and improving technology.
In my expirence drawing and modeling are related. I havent seen a good modeler who couldn't draw well. But then it does vary on the type of modeling. Some poeple can handle technical type modeling but not organic character modeling.
Knowing how to modeling is just knowing how to use the software. Other skills dictate how well you will be able to model. Such as your ability to take what you see and acuratly reproduce it.
This idea relies upon it having lots of people to get lots of people. But that's the problem, how do you get lots of people in the first place? By making it so large hoods can be created that can later be broken down into smaller hoods. Otherwise I don't see this being popular at all.
It appears slashdot is helping with that, there is aready a large list of communities created on Sept 2.
This requires a little explaintion, each of these people themselves didnt have that much data, but they ran hubs that had that much data over all the users.
I have never seen any hub have a petrabyte of data, most of them have 5-500 terabytes.
It also should be said, that most of the data is not unique, many users may have a copy of the same file or similar file. Of course the media spin is to make it look like its more than it really is.
It looks like they only went after the people who ran some of the hubs, not the users thenselves.
In response to one of the other comments, There are many hubs that are not on neomodulas list, in fact the ones on thier list tend to be really small, mostly only a couple hundred users. Other hubs accessible via dc++ have several thousand users.
It looks really cool, but there are a couple things that worry me.
1. Being that the technology is patented is stressed highly in this article. Patents may not prevent adoption of the product, it will stifle inovation by anyone else.
2. Is there any supposed transfer rates? If we couldnt write very fast to it, it would be pointless to have so much space.
Beta testers also have access to the final build. Thats most likely the version thats on the being distributed on the bit torrent networks.
If your concered about the about someone planting an trojan disguesed as sp2, the checksum is 59a98f181fe383907e520a391d75b5a7 *WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe
Im a little skeptical when the news comes from selling protection against the same problem. Hey look, there is a problem here, but guess what I will sell you protection agasint it.
Interestingly enough, at least one person works for both orginizations, Daniel B. Ravicher.
What does everyone else thing? is it something to be concerned about or is it a ploy to sell insurance and drive up the cost of linux adoption?
Does anyone know anything about the scienceblog.com site? It doesnt seem very reputable considering all the ads and the very obvious SEO technquies (look for the hidden links at the bottom).
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When you purchase a cd or movie you purchase a license to view or listen to it. The medium is just how its delivered.
So if the medium gets destroyed or damnaged, you still have a license to the IP. So with that you could justify downloading or otherwise obtaining a new copy.
I can attest to the first downloading then buying stuff. My is well over $2000 between movies, music, and software.
Right now i really like the free songs each week on itunes. Because of it, i have found new artists that i like and have gone back and purchased the full album.
Lost in Translation is the last movie i bought after viewing a dowloaded divx first. But i have done that with so many other movies. Musa, Hero, crouching tiger hidden dragon, firefly, To name a few.
THe reason why i purchase it is not nessarily so i will watch it again. But more to encourage distrubutors to invest into more of those types of movies.
This is a complex issue thats not going to change over night.
I go to lan parties and find that most of the people there expect games to be pirated. Sure some people buy a legit copy, but its ussualy one person, and by the end of the party everyone has a copy. Most games come from downloaded cd images.
As far as im concerned, CD protection means nothing, All types of protection can be cracked in some way or another, its just a matter of time. But would removing copy protection spur more people to purchase the game? Nope. The issue is more complex than that.
I think most people would be willing to purchase a game for the right price. $50 for a game you might only end up play for just a few hours is ALOT. It better be a damn good few hours. Saddly most games can only offer a mediocre few hours.
I would be willing to purchase much more games myslef if the publishers stop taking me as stupid. I would love to be purchase and download games. But not for the same price as a retail box, Im not stupid, its alot cheaper for a publisher to distribute a download version. Why dont they pass on some of the savings. Instead of expecting us to pay the full price. Stuff like Condition Zero can be purchased via steam for $40, but you can probably find it in the bargin bin or for less than $20.
There will still be some people who will absolutly refuse to pay for any game, but still be wanting to play them. Those people should burn in hell.
I used to read more magazines before i got broadband. Now im always on. If i want news i dont even wait for it to be published in tommrrows paper, i access it online.
I think there are many sites that have in my opinion replaced the need for magazines. But there are some who still prefer it to be printed or dont have suffciant access to the internet to use that as a news source.
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Yes and No. Everytime there is a format change most consumers go buy a new copy of the films they have in the new format.
Would you include subsciption TV as part of hollywood?
I do belive the Eve Online play card system only subtracts days as you use them.
Im not going to comment on the liklyhood that this will or will not be succsessful.
If we have to choose one protection for software it would have to be copyright.
Patents basically kill any type of compentition. You could charge whatever you wanted and sue the hell out of anyone who tries to write a competeing product. It basically means that lots of profit for the patent holder and no competition driven innovation or service.
Copyright on the other hand protects a companies specific implementation of an idea. No one else can use that implementation but it doesnt prevent someone from making a compediting product.
If linux didnt exist, Microsoft probably wouldnt be trying to create new innovations for longhorn such as avalon.
Most DVDs use the dual layer capacity of current DVDs. Using this technique it would be nessesary to split many movies onto two discs. If your going to do that, why not just package one DVD and one HD-DVD.
If there is something that you are offended by on TV, no one is making you watch it. If your concerned about your kids watching something you dont want them to, just rememeber who is the parent. I sure hope your not expecting the FCC to take care of your kids.
Market forces will dictate what programming exists on television. If people want to watch content with sex, then yes you will have that on TV. If you dont like that, start your own station.
Its not new. Get outside of hollywood and you will see it used alot. However the persective is ussually of a third person (audience) in the scene but not interacting. When the camera is handheld amoung the characters it creates more of an intimate feel by bringing the audience into the scene.
As far as i can tell its not. The legal judgement is over cyber cafe distribution. Basically it states that valve cant be cut out of any cyber cafe distribtion deal.
As long as everyone wants to run high detail settings when they dont have the hardware to support it, its definitly not going to go away.
I only have the studdering issue in high detail mode, Medium is almost perfect. My system is about equivilant to yours.
Yeah, the disc is yours, but the IP on that disc is given to you under terms of their licsence.
If they want to stop letting you use thier software, they have the right.
But you have the right not to purchase thier software if you dont agree with the terms of thier licence.
If you dont like the terms of quickbooks, you can purchase peachtree or use one of the GPL'ed accounting packages.
Property and Intelectual Property is not the same thing, nor should it be looked at under the same rules. Software is kind of a place where both rules areas cross. The physical cd is property but the software stored on that cd is not.
The orginal half-life has to be one of the most pirated games ever. We used to play alot of CS and HL at the lan parties i went to. Some people bought the game, while many other pirated it. Without steam we could play lan games with each other just fine.
The people who orginally bought the game now use steam to play. Everyone else complains that steam sucks because they dont want to buy a copy of the game.
Al they are doing is making it harder for those who cant understand the idea that you have to buy the game to play it. If your are in one of those situations where you cant connect to the internet to activate the game, then dont buy the game. A majority of gamers have some form of access to the internet.
There are many reasons for the american healthcare system for being out of whack.
d f A comparison of world health systems, the data is from 2000 so it may be slightly out of date. The US, spends the most money, but rank 72 on the level of health. There are many, espessialy european countries that have better overall health and spend a fraction of what the US does. If you did a cost benfit anaylsis of the american health system, it wouldnt look too good.
Drug research is a small part of total health care expendatiures. It is something like 5% (I cant find the source again so that may be off). The full funding is not from drug sales, but drug research is also funded by public money. So why doesnt the public have partial ownership over the patents?
Drugs are also being design as commercial products. Negitive trials have been ignored. Drug companies ghostwrite case studies for journals. Marketing has about as large of a budget as research. Is this how we want to develop drugs that impact our health?
I would propose public funding for all drug research. Then the public has already paid for the research. The drug companies can take this research and manufacter the drugs.
http://www.who.int/whr/2000/en/whr00_annex_en.p
If we were to switch to a universal system, we probably wont be saving money as much as we would reallocate it. Take it out of CEO budgets, Marketing, Malpractice insurance, and invest it in giving everyone healthcare and improving technology.
In my expirence drawing and modeling are related. I havent seen a good modeler who couldn't draw well. But then it does vary on the type of modeling. Some poeple can handle technical type modeling but not organic character modeling.
Knowing how to modeling is just knowing how to use the software. Other skills dictate how well you will be able to model. Such as your ability to take what you see and acuratly reproduce it.
This is not new... you can easily do this with a maya shader. Maya shaders are very fexlible in attaining realistic and Non photorealistic renders.
Not only that, but there is no information about the company on the website.
Its got that feeling of an overnight company. The whois record was only registered in july.
It wouldnt supprise me if its some company that took pearPC and is trying to sell it.
It appears slashdot is helping with that, there is aready a large list of communities created on Sept 2.
This requires a little explaintion, each of these people themselves didnt have that much data, but they ran hubs that had that much data over all the users.
I have never seen any hub have a petrabyte of data, most of them have 5-500 terabytes.
It also should be said, that most of the data is not unique, many users may have a copy of the same file or similar file. Of course the media spin is to make it look like its more than it really is.
It looks like they only went after the people who ran some of the hubs, not the users thenselves.
In response to one of the other comments, There are many hubs that are not on neomodulas list, in fact the ones on thier list tend to be really small, mostly only a couple hundred users. Other hubs accessible via dc++ have several thousand users.
It looks really cool, but there are a couple things that worry me.
1. Being that the technology is patented is stressed highly in this article. Patents may not prevent adoption of the product, it will stifle inovation by anyone else.
2. Is there any supposed transfer rates? If we couldnt write very fast to it, it would be pointless to have so much space.
Beta testers also have access to the final build. Thats most likely the version thats on the being distributed on the bit torrent networks.
If your concered about the about someone planting an trojan disguesed as sp2, the checksum is 59a98f181fe383907e520a391d75b5a7 *WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe
Im a little skeptical when the news comes from selling protection against the same problem. Hey look, there is a problem here, but guess what I will sell you protection agasint it.
Interestingly enough, at least one person works for both orginizations, Daniel B. Ravicher.
What does everyone else thing? is it something to be concerned about or is it a ploy to sell insurance and drive up the cost of linux adoption?
http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/techbeat/tb2004 _0730.htm#tackling
Does anyone know anything about the scienceblog.com site? It doesnt seem very reputable considering all the ads and the very obvious SEO technquies (look for the hidden links at the bottom).
When you purchase a cd or movie you purchase a license to view or listen to it. The medium is just how its delivered.
So if the medium gets destroyed or damnaged, you still have a license to the IP. So with that you could justify downloading or otherwise obtaining a new copy.
I can attest to the first downloading then buying stuff. My is well over $2000 between movies, music, and software.
Right now i really like the free songs each week on itunes. Because of it, i have found new artists that i like and have gone back and purchased the full album.
Lost in Translation is the last movie i bought after viewing a dowloaded divx first. But i have done that with so many other movies. Musa, Hero, crouching tiger hidden dragon, firefly, To name a few.
THe reason why i purchase it is not nessarily so i will watch it again. But more to encourage distrubutors to invest into more of those types of movies.
This is a complex issue thats not going to change over night.
I go to lan parties and find that most of the people there expect games to be pirated. Sure some people buy a legit copy, but its ussualy one person, and by the end of the party everyone has a copy. Most games come from downloaded cd images.
As far as im concerned, CD protection means nothing, All types of protection can be cracked in some way or another, its just a matter of time. But would removing copy protection spur more people to purchase the game? Nope. The issue is more complex than that.
I think most people would be willing to purchase a game for the right price. $50 for a game you might only end up play for just a few hours is ALOT. It better be a damn good few hours. Saddly most games can only offer a mediocre few hours.
I would be willing to purchase much more games myslef if the publishers stop taking me as stupid. I would love to be purchase and download games. But not for the same price as a retail box, Im not stupid, its alot cheaper for a publisher to distribute a download version. Why dont they pass on some of the savings. Instead of expecting us to pay the full price. Stuff like Condition Zero can be purchased via steam for $40, but you can probably find it in the bargin bin or for less than $20.
There will still be some people who will absolutly refuse to pay for any game, but still be wanting to play them. Those people should burn in hell.
After a nation wide program to get rid of addiction, Doctors now find that people are addicted to the anti-addiction vaccine.
I used to read more magazines before i got broadband. Now im always on. If i want news i dont even wait for it to be published in tommrrows paper, i access it online.
I think there are many sites that have in my opinion replaced the need for magazines. But there are some who still prefer it to be printed or dont have suffciant access to the internet to use that as a news source.