Who cares if we can get a lot of power. This isn't an end product. It's just the proof of a future potential.
Rarely does basic research provide a usable end product. It just provides the confindence and direction that private enterprises need to justify investing the R&D dollars. You can be sure that if this is verified a lot of big money will go to work in figuring out ways of making it a useful power source.
And you know all that because you're in a grad program. Your research isn't important for it's end use. It's important because the findings you publish may be just what someone else, or even yourself, needs to begin developing an end product.
So, is this just a technology hack until DVD-RW prices come down? This drive seems like a steal with a $250 USD sticker compared to the recordable DVD options."
With any luck, this is the technology hack that will force DVD-RW prices to come down!!
Maybe that is what Sony is hoping. They may see this as a quick step to get people moving over to DVD-RW. They easily have a bunch of money to be made on selling DVD-RW kits and (more importantly) the DVD-RW media!
If they can press down DVD-RW prices then they figure they'll start appearing in computers come this fall. A new Windows is likely to lead to a pick-up in computer sales through the fall and x-mas seasons on into next year.
Sony would sure love to get prices down so DVD-RW's start appearing on computers by the third quarter. Media sales would go up. DVD-RW drive sales would go up. Presumably, DVD sales would go up (and sony can make money there also).
>>Not that I believe that they did do that much
>>wrong, but anytime a child resorts to killing
>>himself, something went wrong.
Hello...I believe in most of the world this is called: WHERE THE HECK ARE MOM AND DAD????
I mean it's one thing to same why didn't school officials notice. But, as I understand it, he had already been sent home. And, really, how should school officials have known the kid would kill himself. I'm sure that Principal has suspended kids for more serious offenses and threated REAL jail time. None of those kids decide to skip the trial.
Please...I see this as being a case of why weren't the parents there with the kid?
Fine, but accept the punishment. Actually most of the civil rights leaders who believed you should protest by breaking the law ALSO believed you had to be willing to take the punishment. In fact many of them spent many a night in jail for their actions.
Even if the law was wrong it does not mean that the kid was in the right. I cannot see how hacking into the schools computer system is some moral crusade. He was being a punk and having a good time and he got caught. Sure, the Principal overreacted but he doesn't exactly have blood on his hands.
Okay...Isn't there a clear difference between patent infringement and reverse engineering. To revers engineer all parties involved have to be CLEAN...meaning they have never seen any of the patent protected code. This is the part that the DeCSS people have to show as a defense. That they in no way used the patents or code they covered to break the DSS encryption. If everything is clean then the court is going to give you 1st Amendment protection.
What you cannot do is use the patent protected products to learn how they work and break the encryption they use.
Example...
In my new SuperCool Widget Program you know that if the CD data contains:
MHBJ GQ ALLI
and this is displayed as:
NICK IS COOL
Then if you can figure out the coding scheme all is OKAY. But, if you have any access to the code then you are in violation of any patent I have. In other words, as long as the DeCSS guys NEVER EVER looked at inside of the DVD players then all should be COOL!
Remember that unless you are using an IBM you are probably using a reverse engineered BIOS (never looked but I presume this ThinkPad probably has a RE'd BIOS). IBM tried to prevent this by publishing the source code to their BIOS...thereby reducing the number of available CLEAN engineers. Luckily some were found who were smart and had NEVER seen the code.
If any of this is wrong then feel free to correct me...I'm just an idiot who likes to type.
oh, yeah...the Supreme Court didn't rule on anything. They just declined to decide the case until all issues relating to unfair competition were decided by lower courts. They prefer to rule on complete cases, rather then bits and pieces.
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Who cares if we can get a lot of power. This isn't an end product. It's just the proof of a future potential.
Rarely does basic research provide a usable end product. It just provides the confindence and direction that private enterprises need to justify investing the R&D dollars. You can be sure that if this is verified a lot of big money will go to work in figuring out ways of making it a useful power source.
And you know all that because you're in a grad program. Your research isn't important for it's end use. It's important because the findings you publish may be just what someone else, or even yourself, needs to begin developing an end product.
If they can press down DVD-RW prices then they figure they'll start appearing in computers come this fall. A new Windows is likely to lead to a pick-up in computer sales through the fall and x-mas seasons on into next year.
Sony would sure love to get prices down so DVD-RW's start appearing on computers by the third quarter. Media sales would go up. DVD-RW drive sales would go up. Presumably, DVD sales would go up (and sony can make money there also).
Of course, I might just be a conspiracy nut!
>>Not that I believe that they did do that much >>wrong, but anytime a child resorts to killing >>himself, something went wrong. Hello...I believe in most of the world this is called: WHERE THE HECK ARE MOM AND DAD???? I mean it's one thing to same why didn't school officials notice. But, as I understand it, he had already been sent home. And, really, how should school officials have known the kid would kill himself. I'm sure that Principal has suspended kids for more serious offenses and threated REAL jail time. None of those kids decide to skip the trial. Please...I see this as being a case of why weren't the parents there with the kid?
>> Bad rules SHOULD be broken.
Fine, but accept the punishment. Actually most of the civil rights leaders who believed you should protest by breaking the law ALSO believed you had to be willing to take the punishment. In fact many of them spent many a night in jail for their actions.
Even if the law was wrong it does not mean that the kid was in the right. I cannot see how hacking into the schools computer system is some moral crusade. He was being a punk and having a good time and he got caught. Sure, the Principal overreacted but he doesn't exactly have blood on his hands.
Okay...Isn't there a clear difference between patent infringement and reverse engineering. To revers engineer all parties involved have to be CLEAN...meaning they have never seen any of the patent protected code. This is the part that the DeCSS people have to show as a defense. That they in no way used the patents or code they covered to break the DSS encryption. If everything is clean then the court is going to give you 1st Amendment protection. What you cannot do is use the patent protected products to learn how they work and break the encryption they use. Example... In my new SuperCool Widget Program you know that if the CD data contains: MHBJ GQ ALLI and this is displayed as: NICK IS COOL Then if you can figure out the coding scheme all is OKAY. But, if you have any access to the code then you are in violation of any patent I have. In other words, as long as the DeCSS guys NEVER EVER looked at inside of the DVD players then all should be COOL! Remember that unless you are using an IBM you are probably using a reverse engineered BIOS (never looked but I presume this ThinkPad probably has a RE'd BIOS). IBM tried to prevent this by publishing the source code to their BIOS...thereby reducing the number of available CLEAN engineers. Luckily some were found who were smart and had NEVER seen the code. If any of this is wrong then feel free to correct me...I'm just an idiot who likes to type. oh, yeah...the Supreme Court didn't rule on anything. They just declined to decide the case until all issues relating to unfair competition were decided by lower courts. They prefer to rule on complete cases, rather then bits and pieces.