Screwing CDRs is not the answer. Neither is banning p2p software. The RIAA has a completely reasonable reason to be pissed. People are stealing their product. However, all of these content control protections only hurt the customer.
Rather than punishing methods of pirating that have other uses, the pirates need to be fined. Jail time probably isn't appropriate, but if they could make a hefty, enforceable fine for the illegal possession of songs / music, that would stop piracy immediatly.
Image if uploading illegal content to someone was illegal. The RIAA would just need to track down individual users, and send them a bill. Naturally some manner of regulation would be necessary to make sure they don't have an guilty before innocent situation. However, they do the have the right to be pissed about this. People are stealing stuff from them.
This solution doens't penalize those of us who use burners, mp3 players, decss, napster, etc. but does burn those who are actually doing something illegal. Yes, I know a lot of people are going to play the information wants to be free as in beer argument, but the fact remains that stealing music and burning it is illegal, and noone is going to stop doing it unless they can get caught.
I have a hotrod, and it is without question the best purchase I have ever made. I got it on a special discount price of $100. Also... check out this site. It isn't ready yet, but they claim it will be compatible with all systems via an adapter. Seems like it would be pretty sexy.
The human brain has millions (billions) of neurons in its net. Computer hardware can not emulate this many. I think the most a standard desktop PC could handle would be a few thousand. Thus, i suspect they must be using something else.
3dstudio max is better in open gl not because gl is better than direct3d, but because the developers coded it better for that api. Here, the developers chose opengl, and as a result, those of us who want to use direct3d suffer.
This is not a bad thing. While this does not bode well for Linux / MAC users, it does mean good things for the majority of the game playing market -> Windows users.
Back in the day when 3dfx was the big bad daddy, developers who knew how to code for their card made the decision to only support Glide, and if they supported other APIs, they weren't done as well.
Deus Ex is probably the best example of this. It was based on the Unreal engine, which had glide as its primary API. In subsequent patches, epic fixed Unreal so that its Direct 3D played well. Ion Storm did not, and as a result, the game runs like ass on my 1.2 with 512 MB ram and GeForce 2.
Much like modem standards (remember those wars?), user interfaces (sorry, just read someones disertation on why having 12 different window managers under linux is a bad idea), it is not always a good idea to have multiple ways of doing things. If everyone supported Open GL, that would be great. However, todays hardware is written with Direct3D in mind, and it saves work for the developers, as well as making things more consistant for the end user, if everyone would just use it.
Someone recently suggested the idea of writing a worm that patches security holes, rather than exploiting them. If a worm can get in, it can certainly bring the fix, fix it, then attempt to infect / fix other machines.
I don't have the technical know-how to do this, and I'll admit it, but if I did, what would the legal ramifications be? I write this worm / autopatcher, and set it loose. Can I be sent to jail?
More important to the legal ramifications, would the/. community be in favor of such a worm? Then the hardest question of all. If yes, would you still be in favor of it if Microsoft let it loose?
I seem to remember some savvy/.er out there somewhere who showed that MS was actually using Linux to power Hotmail. Maybe with the recent facelift upgrade they did, they changed the backend as well...
I wonder if the same could be done with XHTML or even regular HTML.
If HTML is written properyly, it is XML. Browsers nowadays let you cheat, and mix tags, and ignore quotes, but if the HTML is written to spec, then it is technically XML.
Thank you for helping me out here. I think you made a good point, and I'm sorry that you lost a karma point to back me up. The freedom to break the law is not a right we should enjoy.
Its easy to stand up and say that this is a privacy violation, although it seems pefectly legal. If this system enables the capture of one murderer, rapist, or sex offender, then I think its probably worth a minor infringement of our privacy.
Would you sacrifice someone elses life for your paranoia?
I would personally have to provide identification every time the camera falsely identifies me as a criminal than to let a criminal walk the streets. The problem is that there is no guarantee that the criminal will strike again, so the "benefits" of such a system are invisible, while the privacy implications are right in front of us.
Final Fantasy XI won't be out any time soon. By the time that it is, even the xbox will have been out for months, if not a year. Its FF X that will be the difference, as it will be released in the US in early 2001, just a few months after the xbox, assuming that it is released on time. FFX is going to be out in Japan in a few days, which will pretty much seal the deal for the PS2 in Japan.
Would it be possible to fudge it. Everytime the server asks for a watermark, couldn't you just send the same bogus watermark every time? This would let all of your songs show up on the network. All someone needs to do is figure out the protocol, and go for it.
All of this is academic however, cause napster sucks, and its all about the audiogalaxy.
What other reasons are there to resist these smart tags? What if MS didn't control the tags, or had some manner of public voting system on them, so that the public could choose to link Linux to linux.com, linux.org, etc.
On second thought, thats probably not a good idea. You know some script kiddie is going to find a way to vote a hundred times for goatse.cx.
I'll grant you that Final Fantasy has not been over hyped. I'm fairly satisfied with the amount of preview that I've seen. My skepticism stems from the fact that I am very excited about seeing it, which makes me nervous that its going to be a let down.
This is all about Java, and O'Reilly busted him on it. By giving away the source, they hope to give their language a wider audience, hoping that people will choose it over Java. Even Linux Nazi's might be willing to give it a shot if someone ports it to Linux. I'm willing to gamble that C# is probably a pretty good language, if you're into that high level Java style stuff, and by giving the source away they get maximum exposure.
Wait for the reviews before you get all hot and bothered. I can't count the number of times I've been all excited about something and found out later that it was complete and total rubbish. Pearl Harbor is a notable example. Or to be all excited about something and then find out that its really bug ridden and mediocre ( Black and White - if you played it for more than 10 hours ). The only thing I can think of that has come close to living up to expectations is Tribes 2, despite the bugs.
Before you let the screenshot mania kick in, just take a deep breath, and go play some tribes, or counter strike. When the game comes out, we'll see how it is.
BTW, I hope that the upcoming Final Fantasy movie proves me wrong about pre hype.
Katz has done an interesting job discussing corporate greed, and i think its difficult to say that corporate greed isn't a problem today.
However, what is the solution?
1. We would need new laws.
This isn't possible with the current elected officials.
2. So, we need to elect a bunch of people who think like us, so they can implement #1 above.
There is no way we're going to re elect our entire government. So instead, we will:
3. Write long winded rants and railings against evil corporations, ignoring the true cause of the problem, 97% of society. People are stupid and selfish. How do we fix that?
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Screwing CDRs is not the answer. Neither is banning p2p software. The RIAA has a completely reasonable reason to be pissed. People are stealing their product. However, all of these content control protections only hurt the customer.
Rather than punishing methods of pirating that have other uses, the pirates need to be fined. Jail time probably isn't appropriate, but if they could make a hefty, enforceable fine for the illegal possession of songs / music, that would stop piracy immediatly.
Image if uploading illegal content to someone was illegal. The RIAA would just need to track down individual users, and send them a bill. Naturally some manner of regulation would be necessary to make sure they don't have an guilty before innocent situation. However, they do the have the right to be pissed about this. People are stealing stuff from them.
This solution doens't penalize those of us who use burners, mp3 players, decss, napster, etc. but does burn those who are actually doing something illegal. Yes, I know a lot of people are going to play the information wants to be free as in beer argument, but the fact remains that stealing music and burning it is illegal, and noone is going to stop doing it unless they can get caught.
Captain_Frisk
I have a hotrod, and it is without question the best purchase I have ever made. I got it on a special discount price of $100. Also... check out this site. It isn't ready yet, but they claim it will be compatible with all systems via an adapter. Seems like it would be pretty sexy.
Captain_Frisk
The human brain has millions (billions) of neurons in its net. Computer hardware can not emulate this many. I think the most a standard desktop PC could handle would be a few thousand. Thus, i suspect they must be using something else.
I'd like to what kindof algorithms they are using. If they are using a neural net, its never going to scale up to adult style language.
However, i think this is the right direction to travel in pursuit of passing the turing test.
Captain_Frisk
3dstudio max is better in open gl not because gl is better than direct3d, but because the developers coded it better for that api. Here, the developers chose opengl, and as a result, those of us who want to use direct3d suffer.
Sorry Folks, (I'm ready for the mod down)
This is not a bad thing. While this does not bode well for Linux / MAC users, it does mean good things for the majority of the game playing market -> Windows users.
Back in the day when 3dfx was the big bad daddy, developers who knew how to code for their card made the decision to only support Glide, and if they supported other APIs, they weren't done as well.
Deus Ex is probably the best example of this. It was based on the Unreal engine, which had glide as its primary API. In subsequent patches, epic fixed Unreal so that its Direct 3D played well. Ion Storm did not, and as a result, the game runs like ass on my 1.2 with 512 MB ram and GeForce 2.
Much like modem standards (remember those wars?), user interfaces (sorry, just read someones disertation on why having 12 different window managers under linux is a bad idea), it is not always a good idea to have multiple ways of doing things. If everyone supported Open GL, that would be great. However, todays hardware is written with Direct3D in mind, and it saves work for the developers, as well as making things more consistant for the end user, if everyone would just use it.
Captain_Frisk
Someone recently suggested the idea of writing a worm that patches security holes, rather than exploiting them. If a worm can get in, it can certainly bring the fix, fix it, then attempt to infect / fix other machines.
/. community be in favor of such a worm? Then the hardest question of all. If yes, would you still be in favor of it if Microsoft let it loose?
I don't have the technical know-how to do this, and I'll admit it, but if I did, what would the legal ramifications be? I write this worm / autopatcher, and set it loose. Can I be sent to jail?
More important to the legal ramifications, would the
Captain_Frisk
doesn't mean i can't dream. Seriously, are there any decent freeware 3d programs out there besides povray and its clones?
fuck linux
Sorry buddy. 3rd post for you! Fuck FP Wannabees. Linux is cool. If you don't like linux, why are you even bothering to try to get a first post?
Its good to see big business start to recognize the power of open source. No when will i get to see some big name open source 3d rendering apps?
I seem to remember some savvy /.er out there somewhere who showed that MS was actually using Linux to power Hotmail. Maybe with the recent facelift upgrade they did, they changed the backend as well...
Captain_Frisk
I wonder if the same could be done with XHTML or even regular HTML.
If HTML is written properyly, it is XML. Browsers nowadays let you cheat, and mix tags, and ignore quotes, but if the HTML is written to spec, then it is technically XML.
Captain_Frisk
That IBM paid Microsoft to develop OS/2?
Thank you for helping me out here. I think you made a good point, and I'm sorry that you lost a karma point to back me up. The freedom to break the law is not a right we should enjoy.
How much is your privacy worth?
Its easy to stand up and say that this is a privacy violation, although it seems pefectly legal. If this system enables the capture of one murderer, rapist, or sex offender, then I think its probably worth a minor infringement of our privacy.
Would you sacrifice someone elses life for your paranoia?
I would personally have to provide identification every time the camera falsely identifies me as a criminal than to let a criminal walk the streets. The problem is that there is no guarantee that the criminal will strike again, so the "benefits" of such a system are invisible, while the privacy implications are right in front of us.
Captain_Frisk
My PC. Its already on the internet. I won't have to buy a broadband adapter, modem, or any other peripheral to make it work.
Captain_Frisk
Final Fantasy XI won't be out any time soon. By the time that it is, even the xbox will have been out for months, if not a year. Its FF X that will be the difference, as it will be released in the US in early 2001, just a few months after the xbox, assuming that it is released on time. FFX is going to be out in Japan in a few days, which will pretty much seal the deal for the PS2 in Japan.
I was under the impression that it was possible to have some meta tags that would disable the smart tags if you were so inclined.
Would it be possible to fudge it. Everytime the server asks for a watermark, couldn't you just send the same bogus watermark every time? This would let all of your songs show up on the network. All someone needs to do is figure out the protocol, and go for it.
All of this is academic however, cause napster sucks, and its all about the audiogalaxy.
Captain_Frisk
What other reasons are there to resist these smart tags? What if MS didn't control the tags, or had some manner of public voting system on them, so that the public could choose to link Linux to linux.com, linux.org, etc.
On second thought, thats probably not a good idea. You know some script kiddie is going to find a way to vote a hundred times for goatse.cx.
Also, what benefits do the smart tags have?
Captain_Frisk
I'll grant you that Final Fantasy has not been over hyped. I'm fairly satisfied with the amount of preview that I've seen. My skepticism stems from the fact that I am very excited about seeing it, which makes me nervous that its going to be a let down.
This is all about Java, and O'Reilly busted him on it. By giving away the source, they hope to give their language a wider audience, hoping that people will choose it over Java. Even Linux Nazi's might be willing to give it a shot if someone ports it to Linux. I'm willing to gamble that C# is probably a pretty good language, if you're into that high level Java style stuff, and by giving the source away they get maximum exposure.
Flame On. Captain_Frisk out.
Wait for the reviews before you get all hot and bothered. I can't count the number of times I've been all excited about something and found out later that it was complete and total rubbish. Pearl Harbor is a notable example. Or to be all excited about something and then find out that its really bug ridden and mediocre ( Black and White - if you played it for more than 10 hours ). The only thing I can think of that has come close to living up to expectations is Tribes 2, despite the bugs.
Before you let the screenshot mania kick in, just take a deep breath, and go play some tribes, or counter strike. When the game comes out, we'll see how it is.
BTW, I hope that the upcoming Final Fantasy movie proves me wrong about pre hype.
Captain_Frisk
id software isn't a giant. Only 9 guys worked on quake, I'd be surprised if they had more than 20 people working for them.
Katz has done an interesting job discussing corporate greed, and i think its difficult to say that corporate greed isn't a problem today.
However, what is the solution?
1. We would need new laws.
This isn't possible with the current elected officials.
2. So, we need to elect a bunch of people who think like us, so they can implement #1 above.
There is no way we're going to re elect our entire government. So instead, we will:
3. Write long winded rants and railings against evil corporations, ignoring the true cause of the problem, 97% of society.
People are stupid and selfish. How do we fix that?
Captain_Frisk.