AACS is probably not nearly as flawed as CSS was. It was developed by a legitimate crypto researcher (Paul Kocher) and addresses many of the flaws that CSS contained. While the device you point to is an interesting case, real fair use is going to be much more difficult with these devices than it was with DVDs. When I asked Paul a few years ago if there were any fair use provisions in AACS he said, "We plan on leaving fair use to the hackers."
1. if you plan to deploy nation wide, that's a very hefty intial investinvestment on trying to secure the box and digital equipment. it's not like your local rent-a-dvd box where the mechanisms are similar to a vending machine. I would have to say the security on these boxes would need to be almost on par with ATM machines.
Why is that? Just encrypt the content (or even 1/10th of it spread through a movie) stored in the kiosk and have a hardware coprocessor decrypt it as it is transferred. Anybody messed with the box and the coprocessor can zero itself.
2. updating the server would mean it'll need an online connection. once again, something general vending machines don't have to account for. unless you plan to deploy people every x days to update the movies, it'll require an online connection.
Piggyback on the Red Box at McDonalds. When the guy goes to put new DVDs in have him also hook up a USB hard disk that synchs while he is doing the manual loading of DVDs. This is neither expensive or time consuming.
3. troubleshooting - when the machine breaks down, it's a lot easier to have someone at blockbuster reboot the machien than actually having to send someone out to take a loot at the problem.
See answer to #2. The mechanical system that vends DVDs is probably more likely to break down. Engineer the kiosk so that the server can be easily replaced, take the borked one back to the shop to fix it if possible.
4. blockbuster already has a customer base that wants to rent/buy vidoes. by putting advertisments all over blockbuster, would help spread it.
I actually don't get what you're trying to get at here, but my suggestion is to not use Blockbuster but to go with Red Box.
The machine readable portion probably needs to be human readable as well. Imagine if the machine readable portion were a barcode. It could be hacked to be just about anything and you wouldn't be able to tell by looking at it. In fact, automated recounts in general might be a bad idea in that they can be manipulated. At the very least an automated recount system needs to be human verified by reading the ballot on a vote by vote basis during the recount process.
It is not just about priority. It is about delays as well. Every disc in my queue is listed as available now since they are all relatively obscure. Yet I now have about a 10 day turnaround from the time I mail a movie in to the time I get the next one. This despite the fact that the return center is less than 10 miles from my house. Our first few movies had a 3 day turnaround. I would at least like to be able to return a movie Monday morning and have a new one at my house by Friday, but that no longer happens.
The expensive address may add prestige to the company and bring business, but happy employees who are well paid tend to work harder, produce better quality work, and are less likely to leave the company for greener fields in the middle of a project.
There is probably a good reason why you don't get to hack your dive computer. Buggy dive computers are not compatible with life.
This reminds me of an article pasted to the door of an IT person at a certain hospital. Basically the article said that Cerner installs at hospitals kill people. Studies have been done and IT upgrades tend to increase mortality rates in the short term.
If you mean to say "raises the question" then there is already a phrase that works for you, which is, "raises the question." I see no need to pollute the meaning of "begs the question" for the sake of the ignorant.
If Adobe figured out some way to lock down Photoshop so that it couldn't be pirated as commonly as it is currently...
I would guess that they have actively decided to not implement effective anti-piracy measures. If people are going to pirate software you want to make sure that they are pirating your software. That is how you maintain your place as a standard. If everyone who currently pirated PS suddenly switched to GIMP that would be a very bad thing for Adobe. Don't think that Adobe doesn't know this.
I haven't used the upgrade slot in my laptop for years. On older laptops I used to use it for a modem. Now that is built in. I've used it for Token Ring, but even IBM has ripped out all their TR networks. I used it for 802.11 networking but that is built in as well now. I've got built in bluetooth as well.
I don't have a built in fingerprint reader, and I've used a PC card one, but the USB one I have works great and is a USB hub. Same goes for smart card readers.
For many uses USB has supplanted both card slot formats. I would honestly rather have more USB slots than the PCMCIA slots on current laptop.
I've been paying back my student loans to Stanford for 7 years now. Just as I get close to finishing them off they go and give my education away for free to the masses! At least I have a large, leather bound sheet of paper to wipe with.
It actually plays all ACC files, whether ripped, purchased by you from iTunes, or purchased by others from iTunes. The Fairplay restrictions apply to playing the files on your computer with iTunes and not to iPods.
Actually you wouldn't if you know what you are doing. You can put all that music on your computer, you just can't play it on the computer. You can put it on as many iPods as you have though since iPods play all Fairplay content without an individual license.
I haven't noticed Azureus being either big or slow, but I understand that it is for you. You might want to give some consideration to the advantages of being cross-platform. Maybe you only run Windows, but I like being able to use the same interface on all my machines with different OSes. If people ask my what client to use (and several have) I don't even ask what OS they use, I just point them to the Azureus source forge site.
I've watched the company I work for purchase several promising companies. In two of the three cases I know some details of, most of the talent from those companies has left. In the third case it is too soon to tell but I've heard that people are leaving. The culture change is hard to swallow for some people and many large companies like their one-size-fits-all culture so much that they force it on everything they buy.
Your "one big rule" gets violated each and every time in my admitedly limited experience.
How many have you lived through, since you are claiming some expertise here?
I was just watching Toy Story with my son. The songs really stuck out as the worst aspect of the movie. Randy Newman is very grating. However, I guess that since it was nominated, it must be great, right?
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This is assuming that they stay on board, and their underlings as well. Many mergers don't turn out as well as hoped because the talent flees when the culture changes. Hopefully Pixar will take over Disney though and put some shine back on the brand.
The point Taco is trying to make here is that accidentally using "to" instead of "too" isn't that big of a deal.
it is too!
Seriously though, it might be that grammar and spelling aren't important to the script kiddies and those that spend all day texting on their phones, but to many people these errors are a distraction and reduce readability. If you are getting paid to edit submissions then you should do a reasonable job of it.
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What!?!? Where on earth would you get that idea?
AACS is probably not nearly as flawed as CSS was. It was developed by a legitimate crypto researcher (Paul Kocher) and addresses many of the flaws that CSS contained. While the device you point to is an interesting case, real fair use is going to be much more difficult with these devices than it was with DVDs. When I asked Paul a few years ago if there were any fair use provisions in AACS he said, "We plan on leaving fair use to the hackers."
Whatever. You've actually released a game. You have a great deal more credibility than those people.
Sounds different when you say they have about 700 locations, doesn't it?
1. if you plan to deploy nation wide, that's a very hefty intial investinvestment on trying to secure the box and digital equipment. it's not like your local rent-a-dvd box where the mechanisms are similar to a vending machine. I would have to say the security on these boxes would need to be almost on par with ATM machines.
Why is that? Just encrypt the content (or even 1/10th of it spread through a movie) stored in the kiosk and have a hardware coprocessor decrypt it as it is transferred. Anybody messed with the box and the coprocessor can zero itself.
2. updating the server would mean it'll need an online connection. once again, something general vending machines don't have to account for. unless you plan to deploy people every x days to update the movies, it'll require an online connection.
Piggyback on the Red Box at McDonalds. When the guy goes to put new DVDs in have him also hook up a USB hard disk that synchs while he is doing the manual loading of DVDs. This is neither expensive or time consuming.
3. troubleshooting - when the machine breaks down, it's a lot easier to have someone at blockbuster reboot the machien than actually having to send someone out to take a loot at the problem.
See answer to #2. The mechanical system that vends DVDs is probably more likely to break down. Engineer the kiosk so that the server can be easily replaced, take the borked one back to the shop to fix it if possible.
4. blockbuster already has a customer base that wants to rent/buy vidoes. by putting advertisments all over blockbuster, would help spread it.
I actually don't get what you're trying to get at here, but my suggestion is to not use Blockbuster but to go with Red Box.
The machine readable portion probably needs to be human readable as well. Imagine if the machine readable portion were a barcode. It could be hacked to be just about anything and you wouldn't be able to tell by looking at it. In fact, automated recounts in general might be a bad idea in that they can be manipulated. At the very least an automated recount system needs to be human verified by reading the ballot on a vote by vote basis during the recount process.
It is not just about priority. It is about delays as well. Every disc in my queue is listed as available now since they are all relatively obscure. Yet I now have about a 10 day turnaround from the time I mail a movie in to the time I get the next one. This despite the fact that the return center is less than 10 miles from my house. Our first few movies had a 3 day turnaround. I would at least like to be able to return a movie Monday morning and have a new one at my house by Friday, but that no longer happens.
The expensive address may add prestige to the company and bring business, but happy employees who are well paid tend to work harder, produce better quality work, and are less likely to leave the company for greener fields in the middle of a project.
So is that what you did? How is your office now?
http://panela.blog-city.com/python_at_google_greg_ stein__sdforum.htm discusses the fact that Google has three official languages: c++, Java, and Python. It then goes into some detail about the use of Python at Google. It is a worthwhile read.
Sign me up as a beta user! :)
There is probably a good reason why you don't get to hack your dive computer. Buggy dive computers are not compatible with life.
This reminds me of an article pasted to the door of an IT person at a certain hospital. Basically the article said that Cerner installs at hospitals kill people. Studies have been done and IT upgrades tend to increase mortality rates in the short term.
If you mean to say "raises the question" then there is already a phrase that works for you, which is, "raises the question." I see no need to pollute the meaning of "begs the question" for the sake of the ignorant.
If Adobe figured out some way to lock down Photoshop so that it couldn't be pirated as commonly as it is currently...
I would guess that they have actively decided to not implement effective anti-piracy measures. If people are going to pirate software you want to make sure that they are pirating your software. That is how you maintain your place as a standard. If everyone who currently pirated PS suddenly switched to GIMP that would be a very bad thing for Adobe. Don't think that Adobe doesn't know this.
I haven't used the upgrade slot in my laptop for years. On older laptops I used to use it for a modem. Now that is built in. I've used it for Token Ring, but even IBM has ripped out all their TR networks. I used it for 802.11 networking but that is built in as well now. I've got built in bluetooth as well.
I don't have a built in fingerprint reader, and I've used a PC card one, but the USB one I have works great and is a USB hub. Same goes for smart card readers.
For many uses USB has supplanted both card slot formats. I would honestly rather have more USB slots than the PCMCIA slots on current laptop.
I've been paying back my student loans to Stanford for 7 years now. Just as I get close to finishing them off they go and give my education away for free to the masses! At least I have a large, leather bound sheet of paper to wipe with.
I meant wipe away my tears...
It actually plays all ACC files, whether ripped, purchased by you from iTunes, or purchased by others from iTunes. The Fairplay restrictions apply to playing the files on your computer with iTunes and not to iPods.
Actually you wouldn't if you know what you are doing. You can put all that music on your computer, you just can't play it on the computer. You can put it on as many iPods as you have though since iPods play all Fairplay content without an individual license.
You've got a friend in me!
You've get a friend indeed!
I can't get it out of my head. Make the cheese stop please!
I assume that you refuse to buy man-made diamonds as well? Despite the fact that you can't tell the difference and they cost quite a bit less?
I haven't noticed Azureus being either big or slow, but I understand that it is for you. You might want to give some consideration to the advantages of being cross-platform. Maybe you only run Windows, but I like being able to use the same interface on all my machines with different OSes. If people ask my what client to use (and several have) I don't even ask what OS they use, I just point them to the Azureus source forge site.
Lord Flipper,
I've watched the company I work for purchase several promising companies. In two of the three cases I know some details of, most of the talent from those companies has left. In the third case it is too soon to tell but I've heard that people are leaving. The culture change is hard to swallow for some people and many large companies like their one-size-fits-all culture so much that they force it on everything they buy.
Your "one big rule" gets violated each and every time in my admitedly limited experience.
How many have you lived through, since you are claiming some expertise here?
I was just watching Toy Story with my son. The songs really stuck out as the worst aspect of the movie. Randy Newman is very grating. However, I guess that since it was nominated, it must be great, right?
This is assuming that they stay on board, and their underlings as well. Many mergers don't turn out as well as hoped because the talent flees when the culture changes. Hopefully Pixar will take over Disney though and put some shine back on the brand.
Most companies know better than to mess with a good thing when they absorb other corporations.
I take it you've never witnessed a merger first hand, have you?
The point Taco is trying to make here is that accidentally using "to" instead of "too" isn't that big of a deal.
it is too!
Seriously though, it might be that grammar and spelling aren't important to the script kiddies and those that spend all day texting on their phones, but to many people these errors are a distraction and reduce readability. If you are getting paid to edit submissions then you should do a reasonable job of it.