I'm sure a huge majority of people prefer a real book but I know at least a small minority would sure like to have the ability to log in and just buy it and download it. I can't count how many times I got the urge to read something late at night when the store was closed or even worse a book that sounds good is out of print and has to be ordered used.
Really what it comes down to though is that these industries have been price fixing for years. They always put pretty window dressing on it like making you buy a whole album when you want one song or some such but that's the real reason people are pirating music left and right. Any attempt to serve the customers needs properly will put that price fixing in jeopardy.
It's irresponsible because it doesn't take a genius to figure out that a problem like this might happen, and that other people just trying to get on with their day might be unfairly affected.
Actually it probably takes someone who's not a genius because a genius wouldn't realize people could possibly be this stupid. War on terror my ass. The terrorists seem to have won already when we have everyone jumping at shadows.
How about you provide them with the foundation to find their own morals instead of this "guidance" you speak up?
That's the root of the debate. Do you as a parent have a right to use your control to put them on a morality railroad that you see fit? What if you are Christian and your kids grow up to be atheists? Do you get to sign in to your 16 year old daughters my space account to make sure she isn't consorting with any dangerous heathen boys?
I'm not saying you're that sort of horrible parent but they DO exist and their is little question that they are infringing upon rights that their children should have.
Seriously who wrote that question and how long have they lived in the US? I think anyone with a brain at this point knows a politicians words mean nothing.
The real question is:
1) Who's funding her and do those people have anything to gain by eroding privacy? 2) What's her previous track record? What was she doing about the Patriot Act? etc etc.
I think it's a mistake to position the fight as "anti-drm". It's confusing the issue. Non-geeks don't really care because they believe any DRM someone cooks up will get cracked.
In addition drm is the least evil thing about trusted computing. If the only thing trusted computing did was provide DRM to music and movies then it wouldn't be quite so dangerous. We need to concentrate on the other aspects of trusted computing.
Also we need to stop saying stuff like "vote with your wallet". Obviously you should do that but the whole problem with illegal monopolies is they sometimes remove the ability to vote with your wallet. If voting with your wallet worked to solve such extremely dangerous problems the microsoft word format would of been opened up long ago. It's time to face facts that the soap box isn't going to work on this one.
The US also lacks a proper party system to solve this problem through political means. Because the US controls the worlds IP laws through the hegemony known as the WTO everyone is going to get screwed. It might be time to start discussing other measures like a world wide effort to attack other sources of the problem (like the WTO) to drive it all out at the roots.
Those trends you linked are actually just linking search terms. In this case since you used "playstation 3" instead of "PS3" you are seeing the wrong data.
Your very first trend when properly entered actually shows the PS3 slaughtering the other two. Not that people searching for information is going to translate into relevant sales numbers when the console prices are so different.
That's my question too. "Winner" is pretty subjective. The original Xbox was arguably a pretty good buy if you liked certain types of games. If you happened to be an avoid PC RPG gamer who liked a lil console RPG on the side though it was an absolute disaster. Almost no RPG's worth playing and the ones that were came out for the PC where I could play them with real controls and high res.
If they want to talk about money though it's obvious who's going to win. The Nintendo DS is already the reigning king showing no signs of giving up it's throne now that dragonquest is going to release on it.
Why is Ars saying they believe they can stop this hack by revoking the player key? The original person who cracked it specifically didn't release the key I thought and was only releasing TITLE keys which will be much more dangerous to revoke yes?
Not that it matters much either way because this attack vector will always exist for any kind of system they come up with. Since it will always exist someone will rip it and post the movie on bittorrent.
They are actually probably pretty happy that this is the only possible hack anyways since it isn't anywhere near as useful as DeCSS.
Obviously Cingular wouldn't lower their prices if it was left up to just them. The real question is has apple really convinced them to offer cheaper service. If the answer is no then is Apple might actually in a bad spot. The reality might be that apple is up against a wall and can't get the providers to offer cheaper service instead of subsidizing the phone.
I tend to think Apple has convinced them to lower prices though.
Ok, can someone explain to me how bills like these are grouped together (someone with the political knowhow not just knee-jerk "because america sucks" responses)?
There are a couple things that can cause it. Basically they can group whatever they want. In this case they probably were going to pass a bill with the Real ID stuff anyways and they slapped it into the tsunami relief bill to lessen the political uproar it would cause otherwise.
Other times it's a give and take sort of thing where person 1 wants X and person 2 wants Y so they agree to put both on a bill and sign it.
[quote]Anybody who speaks against the constitution, and votes as such, should be found guilty of treason.[/quote] Whoa hold up. I think you should rethink what you are saying there. The constitution isn't [b]perfect[/b]. Should I be found guilty of treason for saying it isn't perfect? I'm technically speaking "against" it by saying such a thing.
I highly agree that what he's done here is probably as bad as treason but if we went to the extremes you are talking about the Bill of Rights would of never been written in the first place because it was technically "speaking against" the original constitution that lacked the very amendment we are talking about!
It's not the sprawl it's the transportation system. Lots of other countries have urban sprawl but the fact that people often use public transportation leads to them walking a lot more to get from the train stop to wherever they are going. In the US in almost every city the entire road system is built on the premise that you have a car and that you will drive directly from your garage straight to the parking lot of wherever you are going and do almost no walking at all.
Why do we need to do a study on this though? It's useless information. We know the basic gist of why people get fat. The human body wants to store energy in case of emergency and runs itself on the premise of conserving energy when energy intake gets low. Thus the only real way to keep a fit body is exertion and a decent intake of calories. Instead of worrying about ways to cause people to exert themselves more how about we spend our money on real solutions like fixing the human body so it doesn't have to operate in a prehistoric fashion.
All the phsyics stuff aside it sounds like they aren't actually achieving any kind of fancy compression or whatever.
It's like say ok my compression algorithm is "this picture of CmdrTaco is 01 and this picture of CowboyNeal is 00". This algorithm would dramatically compress the picture of CmdrTaco but the decrompression program would have to have the picture of CmdrTaco stored in it in the first place to decompress the file.
All the real information is being stored in whatever they are using to map whatever the photon is being fired through.
That being said though I suspect the actual real impact of this discovery is that they've found a much more reliable way to retrieve data from data stored in an interference pattern in a crystaline structure or some such (as opossed to our current optical technology which is really just fancy microprinting). That's just the guess of someone with poor understanding of the physics involved though.
Is there more to NASA's side of the story or is this a further sign of their incompetence?
The article paints a picture where anyone would be an idiot to skip research into this type of engine and then says NASA was doing so because of "risk". I doubt that's the whole side of the story but if even a smidgin of it's true that's yet another major flaw exhibited by NASA. Why are we trying to save the shuttle again?
This kind of thing makes me want to vomit. Leave aside all the technical stuff for once. Personally I would really like to know what the hell is going on with the judges in these court rooms? I'll admit to far too much ignorance on the powers of a judge but surely they have some? Don't they have SOME sort of book to throw at these low life prosecutors?
The guy spends 15k on creating a suit with absolutely no new material science or special forming techniques and it's supposed to be a big deal?
If it was really useful somehow I think someone would of already made this. Even if it would be useful I suspect the only reason such a suit isn't used would be because of the people in charge not understanding. In either case this guy has made no significant contribution to the situation.
I'm not saying he's done bad work but it seems like a product in search of a problem to solve.
For a lot of us format-shifting is what matters. The problem with DRM is that it simply can not allow format shifting.
The mere idea of format shifting breaks DRM because quite litterally it implies the ability to shift the format into something which does not have DRM.
How about you learn about science. Physics is a model. It might be useful for describing things but phsyics has not yet reached the level where it can claim to be a perfect mathematical rendition of all reality. Realtivity is not even a law yet for crying out loud. I despair for our education system that we've people running around who know what a light cone is but they can't even remember the basic foundations of what scientific theories are for.
I found this pretty suprising from gamastura. For a "game developer's" top 20 you'd think it would be about either who's good to work for or about who does a good job of encouraging good game development.
In either case EA would obviously be near the bottom of the list.
I havn't read up on flash lately but I was still under the impression flash had problems with wearing out from writing to the same sector too often.
That's fine for a thumb drive but can it really handle the truly massive constant data restructuring generated by the pr0n? I'm assuming it can't.
I'm not even going to ponder the economic success of an expensive hard drive which is unsuitable for the primary data storage need of geeks everywhere.
That's silly. If you didn't get your money's worth in the first episode, that is the game's problem.
How many movies were clearly made to be continued, but didn't?
No offense but you clearly didn't finish it if you are trying to make this argument and thus you should not comment at all.
SiN Episode 1 was more akin to a TV show than any kind of movie or what not. Yes if you liked it it was clearly worth the 20 bucks all by itself but nobody likes to see the start of a story they find intriguing and have it cut off without any sort of conclusion at all.
Of course nobody is going to give us our 20 bucks back but this is clearly going to leave a bad taste in many peoples mouths for episodic content in the future.
WoW players complain because they know what a good camera is.
The WoW camera is indeed good. For a game with only 1 character that is. It's horrible for a game where you are supposed to control 5 though.
The only real problem with NWN2's camera is they didn't go as far as they should of. It should of used a true top-down view with RTS style movement like Baldur's Gate 2.
Almost all windows applications use ctrl F then F3. Sadly firefox does not have this setup correctly which is probably the real source of your confusion. It's certainly not microsofts doing of course though that most third party apps do standardize on many things. That's just because they see the wisdom in doing so even if microsoft often tries to befuddle the process.
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I'm sure a huge majority of people prefer a real book but I know at least a small minority would sure like to have the ability to log in and just buy it and download it. I can't count how many times I got the urge to read something late at night when the store was closed or even worse a book that sounds good is out of print and has to be ordered used.
Really what it comes down to though is that these industries have been price fixing for years. They always put pretty window dressing on it like making you buy a whole album when you want one song or some such but that's the real reason people are pirating music left and right. Any attempt to serve the customers needs properly will put that price fixing in jeopardy.
How about you provide them with the foundation to find their own morals instead of this "guidance" you speak up?
That's the root of the debate. Do you as a parent have a right to use your control to put them on a morality railroad that you see fit? What if you are Christian and your kids grow up to be atheists? Do you get to sign in to your 16 year old daughters my space account to make sure she isn't consorting with any dangerous heathen boys?
I'm not saying you're that sort of horrible parent but they DO exist and their is little question that they are infringing upon rights that their children should have.
Seriously who wrote that question and how long have they lived in the US? I think anyone with a brain at this point knows a politicians words mean nothing.
The real question is:
1) Who's funding her and do those people have anything to gain by eroding privacy?
2) What's her previous track record? What was she doing about the Patriot Act? etc etc.
I think it's a mistake to position the fight as "anti-drm". It's confusing the issue. Non-geeks don't really care because they believe any DRM someone cooks up will get cracked.
In addition drm is the least evil thing about trusted computing. If the only thing trusted computing did was provide DRM to music and movies then it wouldn't be quite so dangerous. We need to concentrate on the other aspects of trusted computing.
Also we need to stop saying stuff like "vote with your wallet". Obviously you should do that but the whole problem with illegal monopolies is they sometimes remove the ability to vote with your wallet. If voting with your wallet worked to solve such extremely dangerous problems the microsoft word format would of been opened up long ago. It's time to face facts that the soap box isn't going to work on this one.
The US also lacks a proper party system to solve this problem through political means. Because the US controls the worlds IP laws through the hegemony known as the WTO everyone is going to get screwed. It might be time to start discussing other measures like a world wide effort to attack other sources of the problem (like the WTO) to drive it all out at the roots.
Those trends you linked are actually just linking search terms. In this case since you used "playstation 3" instead of "PS3" you are seeing the wrong data.
Your very first trend when properly entered actually shows the PS3 slaughtering the other two. Not that people searching for information is going to translate into relevant sales numbers when the console prices are so different.
That's my question too. "Winner" is pretty subjective. The original Xbox was arguably a pretty good buy if you liked certain types of games. If you happened to be an avoid PC RPG gamer who liked a lil console RPG on the side though it was an absolute disaster. Almost no RPG's worth playing and the ones that were came out for the PC where I could play them with real controls and high res.
If they want to talk about money though it's obvious who's going to win. The Nintendo DS is already the reigning king showing no signs of giving up it's throne now that dragonquest is going to release on it.
Why is Ars saying they believe they can stop this hack by revoking the player key? The original person who cracked it specifically didn't release the key I thought and was only releasing TITLE keys which will be much more dangerous to revoke yes?
Not that it matters much either way because this attack vector will always exist for any kind of system they come up with. Since it will always exist someone will rip it and post the movie on bittorrent.
They are actually probably pretty happy that this is the only possible hack anyways since it isn't anywhere near as useful as DeCSS.
Obviously Cingular wouldn't lower their prices if it was left up to just them. The real question is has apple really convinced them to offer cheaper service. If the answer is no then is Apple might actually in a bad spot. The reality might be that apple is up against a wall and can't get the providers to offer cheaper service instead of subsidizing the phone.
I tend to think Apple has convinced them to lower prices though.
Yea and the fact that it clarified the history behind why Korean uses activex so much wasn't useful at all.
I'm all for less dupes but you people need to get a grip sometimes.
Other times it's a give and take sort of thing where person 1 wants X and person 2 wants Y so they agree to put both on a bill and sign it.
[quote]Anybody who speaks against the constitution, and votes as such, should be found guilty of treason.[/quote]
Whoa hold up. I think you should rethink what you are saying there. The constitution isn't [b]perfect[/b]. Should I be found guilty of treason for saying it isn't perfect? I'm technically speaking "against" it by saying such a thing.
I highly agree that what he's done here is probably as bad as treason but if we went to the extremes you are talking about the Bill of Rights would of never been written in the first place because it was technically "speaking against" the original constitution that lacked the very amendment we are talking about!
It's not the sprawl it's the transportation system. Lots of other countries have urban sprawl but the fact that people often use public transportation leads to them walking a lot more to get from the train stop to wherever they are going. In the US in almost every city the entire road system is built on the premise that you have a car and that you will drive directly from your garage straight to the parking lot of wherever you are going and do almost no walking at all.
Why do we need to do a study on this though? It's useless information. We know the basic gist of why people get fat. The human body wants to store energy in case of emergency and runs itself on the premise of conserving energy when energy intake gets low. Thus the only real way to keep a fit body is exertion and a decent intake of calories. Instead of worrying about ways to cause people to exert themselves more how about we spend our money on real solutions like fixing the human body so it doesn't have to operate in a prehistoric fashion.
All the phsyics stuff aside it sounds like they aren't actually achieving any kind of fancy compression or whatever.
It's like say ok my compression algorithm is "this picture of CmdrTaco is 01 and this picture of CowboyNeal is 00". This algorithm would dramatically compress the picture of CmdrTaco but the decrompression program would have to have the picture of CmdrTaco stored in it in the first place to decompress the file.
All the real information is being stored in whatever they are using to map whatever the photon is being fired through.
That being said though I suspect the actual real impact of this discovery is that they've found a much more reliable way to retrieve data from data stored in an interference pattern in a crystaline structure or some such (as opossed to our current optical technology which is really just fancy microprinting). That's just the guess of someone with poor understanding of the physics involved though.
Is there more to NASA's side of the story or is this a further sign of their incompetence?
The article paints a picture where anyone would be an idiot to skip research into this type of engine and then says NASA was doing so because of "risk". I doubt that's the whole side of the story but if even a smidgin of it's true that's yet another major flaw exhibited by NASA. Why are we trying to save the shuttle again?
This kind of thing makes me want to vomit. Leave aside all the technical stuff for once. Personally I would really like to know what the hell is going on with the judges in these court rooms? I'll admit to far too much ignorance on the powers of a judge but surely they have some? Don't they have SOME sort of book to throw at these low life prosecutors?
The guy spends 15k on creating a suit with absolutely no new material science or special forming techniques and it's supposed to be a big deal?
If it was really useful somehow I think someone would of already made this. Even if it would be useful I suspect the only reason such a suit isn't used would be because of the people in charge not understanding. In either case this guy has made no significant contribution to the situation.
I'm not saying he's done bad work but it seems like a product in search of a problem to solve.
For a lot of us format-shifting is what matters. The problem with DRM is that it simply can not allow format shifting.
The mere idea of format shifting breaks DRM because quite litterally it implies the ability to shift the format into something which does not have DRM.
How about you learn about science. Physics is a model. It might be useful for describing things but phsyics has not yet reached the level where it can claim to be a perfect mathematical rendition of all reality. Realtivity is not even a law yet for crying out loud. I despair for our education system that we've people running around who know what a light cone is but they can't even remember the basic foundations of what scientific theories are for.
I found this pretty suprising from gamastura. For a "game developer's" top 20 you'd think it would be about either who's good to work for or about who does a good job of encouraging good game development.
In either case EA would obviously be near the bottom of the list.
I havn't read up on flash lately but I was still under the impression flash had problems with wearing out from writing to the same sector too often.
That's fine for a thumb drive but can it really handle the truly massive constant data restructuring generated by the pr0n? I'm assuming it can't.
I'm not even going to ponder the economic success of an expensive hard drive which is unsuitable for the primary data storage need of geeks everywhere.
No offense but you clearly didn't finish it if you are trying to make this argument and thus you should not comment at all.
SiN Episode 1 was more akin to a TV show than any kind of movie or what not. Yes if you liked it it was clearly worth the 20 bucks all by itself but nobody likes to see the start of a story they find intriguing and have it cut off without any sort of conclusion at all.
Of course nobody is going to give us our 20 bucks back but this is clearly going to leave a bad taste in many peoples mouths for episodic content in the future.
The WoW camera is indeed good. For a game with only 1 character that is. It's horrible for a game where you are supposed to control 5 though.
The only real problem with NWN2's camera is they didn't go as far as they should of. It should of used a true top-down view with RTS style movement like Baldur's Gate 2.
Almost all windows applications use ctrl F then F3. Sadly firefox does not have this setup correctly which is probably the real source of your confusion. It's certainly not microsofts doing of course though that most third party apps do standardize on many things. That's just because they see the wisdom in doing so even if microsoft often tries to befuddle the process.
I thought the labor unions were big democratic supporters?