one more time... they don't care about you recording an analog signal. The issue here isn't defeating someone with a wire splitter and electrical tape. What scares the media companies is the fact that your grandmother has the tools to get, play, give away digital conent of the highest quality without any effort what so ever. On one hand you have a digital file that can be reproduced an infinite about of time with little to no effort, by people with little to no technical skill. The only way to stop people from trading those files is to appeal to thier since of morals. And as we proving in this very thread, the general public doesn't sway much to moral agenda propaganda. If you have to make a digital recording of an analog source, there is no way that the general public will want to consume it like the digital files of today. it kind of boils down to a quality vs. effort equation.
So your right... they will never stop someone from trying to record the sound coming from their speakers (or what ever analog source), but once that recording is made, there is no way that it will be trafficed like the near perfect digital reproductions we have today. Take the proliferation of online movies vs. music. I can go to 50 home and 49 of them will have mp3. 1 or 2 of them will have divx.
oh, and just in case you try to say that your digital reproduction will be as good as the original content... only until they change the way the content plays through your ananlog systems... are you REALLY going to hook up (+) and (-) wires to each of your 5+1 speakers and put all that thourgh a mixer, and down that to a digital format? okay, fine... but what about when 9.3 is the standard? and if you and 10 other people are going to the trouble of doing this, what are the chances that you could be found by authorites and made to stop?
If you were right, I would acquiesce, but it's hard to solder an optical cable. If the DSP doesn't send a signal to to the RCA outs, you can't solder anything... You/He may be talking about taking the signal at the output device, but they aren't worried about that. As I said in the original post, they don't care about analog. They want to control digital.
they really don't care so much about analog paths, as those will fade into obscurity in the next decade or so. No, they want to protect data pathways, and your current digital/optical sound channel isn't so much a problem. You see, you have an dvd player now, but in two years from now you will buy a new one. Except you will notice that all the new ones have the new JANUS digital outputs. You'll have an option to run your JANUS output in 'BLAH' mode, where it will work with your current amp, or you can turn on 'WOW' mode, which will require a new AMP. Eventually you will buy a new amp. And trust me when I say that this new amp will only work in the new JANUS-WOW mode. At that point, you will no longer own your data paths, and the whole time Microsoft never lifted a finger to force you to move. They will use the classic marketing ploys to lure us into the new tehnology. They will make JANUS-WOW an industry standard. They will offer us features beyond our imagination, and stop making as much content that works on non-WOW hardware siteing that the new content just doesn't work as well on the old platforms. The combination will force the market and we will have little choice. We can keep our neglected hardware or switch to the new. one way or the other, RIAA and MPAA win. you are no longer playing their content on a non-secure box. 10 years isn't a long time to wait for technology like that to catch on. mark my words, this senario will happen.
But all is not lost. We will continue to find holes. We will develop the tools we need to get the information we want access to. They will not beable to stop us, because in the end, if they can read it, we can read it too. you are not owned. fight on brothers!
no more mookie stank, ughm-kay?
also, what will the peope do when they have no were else to look? look at the list of companies that are in on this thing!
$.06/mo/cust -or- $.72/cust/yr *more* than dish was already paying!!! That's $1,368,000/yr. This is about right when you consider that Dish paid ~$12,500,000/yr. for the recently expired programming contract. The addition of NickToons to the line up could have been worth the extra 1.3 million alone. Nickelodeon is an extremely compelling property to offer to viewers.
The major problem is where Viacom wanted Dish to put the two(2) extra channels associated with the new contract. Dish offers 60 channels with our basic package. Viacom wanted to put *2* more of its own station in with that package.
Our problem was along the lines of "what do we kick out of the Top60 package to make room, and is the NickToons channel more valuable to us than, say, a Disney? The answer is/was no. They wanted $.72/cust/yr for 1.9 million customers. The way the contract is written up now, we will pay then $.72/cust/yr for ~260,000 customers. That's a 1.18 million dollar savings for Dish. Viacom gets to add their channel; we still get to offer a programming line up that is good value to the consumer.; subscribers won't see an immediate impact on their bills...
it's the software that makes this box worth anything. it's web configurable, and a set and forget type device. also, you dont' have to setup a back up schedule, or render your machine useless while the back up happens. This thing monitors all the files on all the hard drives that it's told about, and backs up every file that gets changed as it changes, and saves up to 8 versions of those files to restore from. IMHO, it's really not a bad deal for casual user. I might get one, and set it up for my mom.
This building's safety system knows what floor an event has occured on. As soon as an alarm is triggered, the floor above and below the event floor start pumping in extra air to pressurize those areas. While the exaust flume on the event floor(s) start sucking air out of the event zone. The exaust creates a vacume this aiding in removal smoke/heat and also helping to prevent any heat, fire, or gas from escaping the area (as the areas around it have a higher pressure.
I can understand if the robot was cut in half. If one end of the worm was removed from the other, at least one part would be able to carry on. Maybe both parts would be able to carry on, given that both had the ability to remember the code routines, and working processors to execute them. So in that case you have two worms that are now less than the whole, but would they know to what extent they had been damaged? In a war time environment, you would want the equipment to know the sevarity of the damage, as to allow it to adapt it's mission.
But more than that, lets asume that a rock falls on one end of the worm. does the worm then have the ability to 'disconnect' from the other end? I'll re read the story, but I don't see the benefit of this particular device. I can't see the benefit of this technology in any other application. I understand study for study's sake, and this might be a really early stage of something way more cool than it sounds, but I fail to see the point of a self correcting robot worm.
Oh well.
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Bad Review "It sucked. Move on!"
Your right, bad reviews usually don't have the same attention holding power.
Better check again,/. has something like 8 web heads, >1 DB Server, and a couple of I/O runners... Check Taco's Journal entries for the latest hardware news.
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one more time... they don't care about you recording an analog signal. The issue here isn't defeating someone with a wire splitter and electrical tape. What scares the media companies is the fact that your grandmother has the tools to get, play, give away digital conent of the highest quality without any effort what so ever. On one hand you have a digital file that can be reproduced an infinite about of time with little to no effort, by people with little to no technical skill. The only way to stop people from trading those files is to appeal to thier since of morals. And as we proving in this very thread, the general public doesn't sway much to moral agenda propaganda. If you have to make a digital recording of an analog source, there is no way that the general public will want to consume it like the digital files of today. it kind of boils down to a quality vs. effort equation.
So your right... they will never stop someone from trying to record the sound coming from their speakers (or what ever analog source), but once that recording is made, there is no way that it will be trafficed like the near perfect digital reproductions we have today. Take the proliferation of online movies vs. music. I can go to 50 home and 49 of them will have mp3. 1 or 2 of them will have divx.
oh, and just in case you try to say that your digital reproduction will be as good as the original content... only until they change the way the content plays through your ananlog systems... are you REALLY going to hook up (+) and (-) wires to each of your 5+1 speakers and put all that thourgh a mixer, and down that to a digital format? okay, fine... but what about when 9.3 is the standard? and if you and 10 other people are going to the trouble of doing this, what are the chances that you could be found by authorites and made to stop?
If you were right, I would acquiesce, but it's hard to solder an optical cable. If the DSP doesn't send a signal to to the RCA outs, you can't solder anything... You/He may be talking about taking the signal at the output device, but they aren't worried about that. As I said in the original post, they don't care about analog. They want to control digital.
they really don't care so much about analog paths, as those will fade into obscurity in the next decade or so. No, they want to protect data pathways, and your current digital/optical sound channel isn't so much a problem. You see, you have an dvd player now, but in two years from now you will buy a new one. Except you will notice that all the new ones have the new JANUS digital outputs. You'll have an option to run your JANUS output in 'BLAH' mode, where it will work with your current amp, or you can turn on 'WOW' mode, which will require a new AMP. Eventually you will buy a new amp. And trust me when I say that this new amp will only work in the new JANUS-WOW mode. At that point, you will no longer own your data paths, and the whole time Microsoft never lifted a finger to force you to move. They will use the classic marketing ploys to lure us into the new tehnology. They will make JANUS-WOW an industry standard. They will offer us features beyond our imagination, and stop making as much content that works on non-WOW hardware siteing that the new content just doesn't work as well on the old platforms. The combination will force the market and we will have little choice. We can keep our neglected hardware or switch to the new. one way or the other, RIAA and MPAA win. you are no longer playing their content on a non-secure box. 10 years isn't a long time to wait for technology like that to catch on. mark my words, this senario will happen.
But all is not lost. We will continue to find holes. We will develop the tools we need to get the information we want access to. They will not beable to stop us, because in the end, if they can read it, we can read it too. you are not owned. fight on brothers!
no more mookie stank, ughm-kay?
also, what will the peope do when they have no were else to look? look at the list of companies that are in on this thing!
$.06/mo/cust -or- $.72/cust/yr *more* than dish was already paying!!! That's $1,368,000/yr. This is about right when you consider that Dish paid ~$12,500,000/yr. for the recently expired programming contract. The addition of NickToons to the line up could have been worth the extra 1.3 million alone. Nickelodeon is an extremely compelling property to offer to viewers.
The major problem is where Viacom wanted Dish to put the two(2) extra channels associated with the new contract. Dish offers 60 channels with our basic package. Viacom wanted to put *2* more of its own station in with that package.
Our problem was along the lines of "what do we kick out of the Top60 package to make room, and is the NickToons channel more valuable to us than, say, a Disney? The answer is/was no. They wanted $.72/cust/yr for 1.9 million customers. The way the contract is written up now, we will pay then $.72/cust/yr for ~260,000 customers. That's a 1.18 million dollar savings for Dish. Viacom gets to add their channel; we still get to offer a programming line up that is good value to the consumer.; subscribers won't see an immediate impact on their bills...
Everyone happy? Sorry about the outage...
I think the AC is implying that the common user could open it, and thus make various unapproved upgrades attempts?
it's the software that makes this box worth anything. it's web configurable, and a set and forget type device. also, you dont' have to setup a back up schedule, or render your machine useless while the back up happens. This thing monitors all the files on all the hard drives that it's told about, and backs up every file that gets changed as it changes, and saves up to 8 versions of those files to restore from. IMHO, it's really not a bad deal for casual user. I might get one, and set it up for my mom.
yeah, I'm with this guy. There is no reason to make the system aware that it is a system. It should only "know it's role".
what happened to your JEs? I kinda miss catching up on your laptop, your school schedule, and life with the 'rents...
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ix-na on tha at-ca out of the ag-ba!!!
This building's safety system knows what floor an event has occured on. As soon as an alarm is triggered, the floor above and below the event floor start pumping in extra air to pressurize those areas. While the exaust flume on the event floor(s) start sucking air out of the event zone. The exaust creates a vacume this aiding in removal smoke/heat and also helping to prevent any heat, fire, or gas from escaping the area (as the areas around it have a higher pressure.
Pretty smart little building.
I can understand if the robot was cut in half. If one end of the worm was removed from the other, at least one part would be able to carry on. Maybe both parts would be able to carry on, given that both had the ability to remember the code routines, and working processors to execute them. So in that case you have two worms that are now less than the whole, but would they know to what extent they had been damaged? In a war time environment, you would want the equipment to know the sevarity of the damage, as to allow it to adapt it's mission.
But more than that, lets asume that a rock falls on one end of the worm. does the worm then have the ability to 'disconnect' from the other end? I'll re read the story, but I don't see the benefit of this particular device. I can't see the benefit of this technology in any other application. I understand study for study's sake, and this might be a really early stage of something way more cool than it sounds, but I fail to see the point of a self correcting robot worm.
Oh well.
Bad Review "It sucked. Move on!"
Your right, bad reviews usually don't have the same attention holding power.
That sounds pretty cool. I may have to check this out.
I think they could get some great ideas for completely off-the wall characters by attending just one Star Trek convention.
Reminds me of Monty Python..."it's just a flesh wound."
Seriously....
Aside from the money incentive, these type of things look good on your college applications.
Another similar game rental site Red Octane It's only 18.95 a month as opposed to the 21.95 charged by GameFly
I'd have to agree with you on this. Think how many of these they will sell to the other students who are just "keeping up with the Joneses."
Now they have Java versions of this file...
yes, too true :)
We sometimes look at SCO, and the things that occur there.
This is nothing more than the next release. There will always be things ont he to do list.
Better check again, /. has something like 8 web heads, >1 DB Server, and a couple of I/O runners... Check Taco's Journal entries for the latest hardware news.
My coworkers already know that I'm not working... so this way they wouldn't have to look at me :)