Okay, this may seem logical, but perhaps it is due for a reminder: This stuff will never happen if we refuse to buy it. It will come to market, a few dopes will pick it up, and then some company, looking to get an edge on the competition because the prices are still so high that there is intense brand and feature competition, will remove the restrictions....hence increasing their sales. Other companies will follow suit.
Now, if I could program the chips myself, that would be a great theft deterrent and a good way to make sure my teenage daughter doesn't take the car on a two hundred mile joyride some night. (god forbid I _ever_ have a teenage daughter) Now, she might complain about the privacy abuse, but I would then tell her to buy her own car. Such a device would probably lower both of our insurance premiums quite a bit too. But I want to be the one with control over it, not some corporation or the government.
Ultimately, even if they managed to completely protect the digital copy of the music, with copy protected file formats, hard drive, sound cards, amplifiers, everything in such a way that each level of that protection was totally unbreakable (yeah right), at some point in time, two little copper wires have to connect to a diaphragm in a speaker somwhere.
In analog copying the greatest, no, the easiset, no, but it can be done so as to lose almost no sound quality. Honsestly, the average Joe can barely tell the differenced between cassette and cd, or even well-cleaned vinyl, and then only if the two forms are played side by side.
personally, it caught my attention.
Sure it is not the way it was supposed to do...thats what artists and innovators do, use things unconventionally to yield a desired effect. more power to him for challenging the status quo and trying to be (a little...a very little bit) creative here. If it pisses you off, vote it down, hell vote me down..i'm not AC..its really not that important in the grand ol' scheme now is it?
one of other predictions from my environmental studies class that had the most data to back it up showed that global warming isn't really a good name for what is happening. Basically, it wil cause some areas to increase in heat, melt ice caps and all that, flooding coastal cities, etc, etc...during the summer. And during the winter because the pendulum had swung so far one direction, it would swing equally in the other. overall results: hotter hots, colder cold, and a whole lot more hurricanes, tornados, the works.
I'll grant this is a pessimistic read of the data, and my prof certainly wasn't unbiased...but can we really afford to second guess ourselves, trading short term gains for long term losses?
I could say something about the intelligence and environmental policies of the US and especially our new president, but i'll refrain.
technical director was always a funny title since Auto-CAD is about as technical as most university theatre programs get. And maybe how to hook-up a 408 three phase feed. In theatre, the TD is the person who organizes, plans, and basically makes the designer's ideas reality.
Murphy was the TD at my university. He never had us call him professor, if we wanted Mike was okay, but most everyone just called him Murphy. A grey beard in the fullest sense (we told the freshmen he was Santa Claus) he was another one of those teachers who just pushed and pushed for excellence. I don't think I've ever had a greater challenge than trying to meet that man's expectations. He'd nail me if i cut corners and if i had everything perfect he would say i was being to anal and needed to relax some. And we butted heads all the time.
He was humble too. He is one of the most respected people in the industry, sitting on national baords for this and that, yet teaches at a small school in West Virginia, instead of an ivy league. And we never could find out anything more about him, just that everyone in the business we ever met knew of him. Unlike most folks in theatre, he never bragged about what he had done.
Sure, I don't think his lectures were that great. Actually, they were non-existent. but he tought me how to see and do the seemingly simple, and somehow from that the actual learing of the complex stuff, like how to actually create a good lighitng design, came naturally.
He taught me things like how to feel a piece of 2x4 to see if there were any cracks inside it that would cause it to break under load. How to set a circular saw down into the middle of a sheet of plywood to cut a trap door and not loose your arm in the process. not to be afraid to stir five gallons of paint with your arm, and how, if you need to paint a long straight line; just stick your tongue into the corner of your mouth and do it.
I could probably go on for ever about what an incredible and unique teacher he is, but you get the point. he taught without teaching, and somehow he managed to teach things that most people say can't be taught but needs to come from within.
While I love the simpicity of the metric system, and unlike most of my peer group (I'm 21) can roughly convert and eyeball in both systems.
But I do a lot of carpentry and construction work. These are people who will need ages to convert to metric. every house built in the US, all of our stock scenery, even the measurements of our stages..all feet and inches.
All of those 2x4s, sheets of plywood, 30" wide doorframes,...i love to tell one of my professors that something is about two meters long...they look at me like i was some sort of socialist radical (oh, wait..)
The sooner the better I say...but don't expect it overnight.
As a sculpture and tech theatre major..no way. Even though the university could provide my materials for an art project ( I only wish), after I am graded on a project it is mine, and I usually sell it..sometimes to the university.
As a theatre designer, I may be paid by the university to design, but i retain the rights to those designs. while i can use them again, the university cannot without paying me. as a general courtesy i've never heard of any designer asking for royalites on photos take of say, a scene design, that might be reproduced in university promotional materials.
though just for good measure, i'm going to GPL some colours, shpaes, lines and textures tomorrow morning, that way any other artist can incoporate them into their works.;)
While lossless audio would be great...no one will leave the mpeg format for a version you have to pay for..at least not for long. SDMI is a waste of time. While direct digital copying is convenient, and doubtless any means of securing a file will be circumvented very quickly (and thousands rush to the OS that does it firstand makes it easiest. But a couple alligator clips and i can bypass absolutely any technology SDMI throws at me, and re-encode it. Sure, sound engineers will hear it, but by the time i get it into.mp3, the difference won't be appreciable.
SDMI can't possibly deny this.
Now as for that lossless audio compression... I suppose the first corporation to release that product and make it not secure, and either dirt cheap or free...will become very famous and very very rich.
well, currenlty living in West (by god) Virginia, I can tell you that no political entity lasts very long when its very best and brightest flee it at the first chance they get.
Fact being, a lot of European countries, and even Canada, though with problems of their own, are significanty better off than we are. Less pollution, less corruption, more culture and art. More rewards for innovation, better education, more liberal and prgressive.
If our politicans don't pull their heads out of the sand, people will leave. In the information age, repression of thought and information is tantamount to self-destruction.
BTW..anyone out there in Canada or Scandinavia looking for a theatre design/technician with high end entertainment technology experience. I learn languages fast...
yeah...aside fomr that whole EMF frying your brains question, which remains unresolved, that is a whole lot of magnetic power. And if I remember high school bio, there is no small amount of iron in your bloodstream. Sounds painful.
Maybe my logic or legalese is rusty, but it seems like anyone, be it Ford, Microsoft, Compaq or Sony, can slap a lable and some sort of locking mechanism on any product of theirs I purchase, label it no user serviceable parts inside, and suddenly I have lost my right to change the oil in my own car (authorized for technicians only), fix conflicts in my operating system (oh, wait..). Can't upgrade my RAM without opening that locked out case containing "protected" technology (guess I''ll have to buy a whole new machine for every upgrade), can't even solder a repair to the loose jack on my protable cd player.
What can't be locked up under this sort of clause? It seems like this act, intended perhaps to protect ingenuity and creative drive, instead will squelch it. Take it apart, put it back together, it is how we learn, whether it is a engine or an OS.
Put up a couple of signs around the dorms in september, and (as evil as i am)I charge $5 to resurrect someone's dead floppy. It takes a lot to really kill them, and even then it is usually a quick fix to either place the disk itself in a new case because the little metal flap thingies got bent in a backpack. (do these have names?) Heck, you can use QBasic!! half the time to try and recover text files on a damaged disc.
It's how I make my beer money! Let floppies live!
Seriously though, you will never be able to get your students to use the network drives effectively. Though I would have to rank my university as moderate to low as a rating for the technological literacy of students, i doubt anywhere that you will teach this to the majority of your student body. Come on, the same students who you would teach how to use a network drive are the ones who are naturally inquistive enough to figure it out on their own.
I know at least a dozen people who live on campus with Nic card built into their brand new 1.1ghz machine mom and dad bought them who still pay to use their AOL dial up accounts because they can't figure out how to dial four digits to get computing services to come to their room and configure the NIC..for free!! *sigh*
The idea of the university automatically backing up files on machines nice..but in addition to the logistics, the big brother factor is a little too scary for me. Smart media is too expensive for college students.
well, since my buddy matt is at home and away from his computer, he probably doesn't know his creation is featured on slashdot (or that his server has been crushed...btw i think it is BSD)
The lasers flicker in the mpeg because of the video camera, not the lasers. Your probably seeing in the neighborhood of $2500 in gear. it is only dangerous to your eyes if you look into the beam..duh.
Lasers will be the entertainment technology of the future. We are starting to be able to scan video and 3d rasters... getting high quality equipment isn't cheap and the US gov over-regulates us.
Go to europe, see an audience scanning show and you will never have a need or desire for psychedelic drugs again because audience scanning lasers can create 3d worlds that totally immerse the audience.
hmm..my elation at seeing one of my best friend's work on slashdot has me so surprised i can't think of anything else coherent to say.. (ha ha, coherent, its a laserist's joke:)
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Okay, this may seem logical, but perhaps it is due for a reminder: This stuff will never happen if we refuse to buy it. It will come to market, a few dopes will pick it up, and then some company, looking to get an edge on the competition because the prices are still so high that there is intense brand and feature competition, will remove the restrictions....hence increasing their sales. Other companies will follow suit. Now, if I could program the chips myself, that would be a great theft deterrent and a good way to make sure my teenage daughter doesn't take the car on a two hundred mile joyride some night. (god forbid I _ever_ have a teenage daughter) Now, she might complain about the privacy abuse, but I would then tell her to buy her own car. Such a device would probably lower both of our insurance premiums quite a bit too. But I want to be the one with control over it, not some corporation or the government.
Ultimately, even if they managed to completely protect the digital copy of the music, with copy protected file formats, hard drive, sound cards, amplifiers, everything in such a way that each level of that protection was totally unbreakable (yeah right), at some point in time, two little copper wires have to connect to a diaphragm in a speaker somwhere. In analog copying the greatest, no, the easiset, no, but it can be done so as to lose almost no sound quality. Honsestly, the average Joe can barely tell the differenced between cassette and cd, or even well-cleaned vinyl, and then only if the two forms are played side by side.
personally, it caught my attention. Sure it is not the way it was supposed to do...thats what artists and innovators do, use things unconventionally to yield a desired effect. more power to him for challenging the status quo and trying to be (a little...a very little bit) creative here. If it pisses you off, vote it down, hell vote me down..i'm not AC..its really not that important in the grand ol' scheme now is it?
one of other predictions from my environmental studies class that had the most data to back it up showed that global warming isn't really a good name for what is happening. Basically, it wil cause some areas to increase in heat, melt ice caps and all that, flooding coastal cities, etc, etc...during the summer. And during the winter because the pendulum had swung so far one direction, it would swing equally in the other. overall results: hotter hots, colder cold, and a whole lot more hurricanes, tornados, the works. I'll grant this is a pessimistic read of the data, and my prof certainly wasn't unbiased...but can we really afford to second guess ourselves, trading short term gains for long term losses? I could say something about the intelligence and environmental policies of the US and especially our new president, but i'll refrain.
technical director was always a funny title since Auto-CAD is about as technical as most university theatre programs get. And maybe how to hook-up a 408 three phase feed. In theatre, the TD is the person who organizes, plans, and basically makes the designer's ideas reality. Murphy was the TD at my university. He never had us call him professor, if we wanted Mike was okay, but most everyone just called him Murphy. A grey beard in the fullest sense (we told the freshmen he was Santa Claus) he was another one of those teachers who just pushed and pushed for excellence. I don't think I've ever had a greater challenge than trying to meet that man's expectations. He'd nail me if i cut corners and if i had everything perfect he would say i was being to anal and needed to relax some. And we butted heads all the time. He was humble too. He is one of the most respected people in the industry, sitting on national baords for this and that, yet teaches at a small school in West Virginia, instead of an ivy league. And we never could find out anything more about him, just that everyone in the business we ever met knew of him. Unlike most folks in theatre, he never bragged about what he had done. Sure, I don't think his lectures were that great. Actually, they were non-existent. but he tought me how to see and do the seemingly simple, and somehow from that the actual learing of the complex stuff, like how to actually create a good lighitng design, came naturally. He taught me things like how to feel a piece of 2x4 to see if there were any cracks inside it that would cause it to break under load. How to set a circular saw down into the middle of a sheet of plywood to cut a trap door and not loose your arm in the process. not to be afraid to stir five gallons of paint with your arm, and how, if you need to paint a long straight line; just stick your tongue into the corner of your mouth and do it. I could probably go on for ever about what an incredible and unique teacher he is, but you get the point. he taught without teaching, and somehow he managed to teach things that most people say can't be taught but needs to come from within.
While I love the simpicity of the metric system, and unlike most of my peer group (I'm 21) can roughly convert and eyeball in both systems. But I do a lot of carpentry and construction work. These are people who will need ages to convert to metric. every house built in the US, all of our stock scenery, even the measurements of our stages..all feet and inches. All of those 2x4s, sheets of plywood, 30" wide doorframes, ...i love to tell one of my professors that something is about two meters long...they look at me like i was some sort of socialist radical (oh, wait..)
The sooner the better I say...but don't expect it overnight.
As a sculpture and tech theatre major..no way. Even though the university could provide my materials for an art project ( I only wish), after I am graded on a project it is mine, and I usually sell it..sometimes to the university. As a theatre designer, I may be paid by the university to design, but i retain the rights to those designs. while i can use them again, the university cannot without paying me. as a general courtesy i've never heard of any designer asking for royalites on photos take of say, a scene design, that might be reproduced in university promotional materials. though just for good measure, i'm going to GPL some colours, shpaes, lines and textures tomorrow morning, that way any other artist can incoporate them into their works. ;)
While lossless audio would be great...no one will leave the mpeg format for a version you have to pay for..at least not for long. SDMI is a waste of time. While direct digital copying is convenient, and doubtless any means of securing a file will be circumvented very quickly (and thousands rush to the OS that does it firstand makes it easiest. But a couple alligator clips and i can bypass absolutely any technology SDMI throws at me, and re-encode it. Sure, sound engineers will hear it, but by the time i get it into .mp3, the difference won't be appreciable.
SDMI can't possibly deny this.
Now as for that lossless audio compression... I suppose the first corporation to release that product and make it not secure, and either dirt cheap or free...will become very famous and very very rich.
well, currenlty living in West (by god) Virginia, I can tell you that no political entity lasts very long when its very best and brightest flee it at the first chance they get. Fact being, a lot of European countries, and even Canada, though with problems of their own, are significanty better off than we are. Less pollution, less corruption, more culture and art. More rewards for innovation, better education, more liberal and prgressive. If our politicans don't pull their heads out of the sand, people will leave. In the information age, repression of thought and information is tantamount to self-destruction. BTW..anyone out there in Canada or Scandinavia looking for a theatre design/technician with high end entertainment technology experience. I learn languages fast...
forced self-censorship = thoughtcrime? orwell might be better than Nostradamus. 1984 was only 16 years off, apparently
yeah...aside fomr that whole EMF frying your brains question, which remains unresolved, that is a whole lot of magnetic power. And if I remember high school bio, there is no small amount of iron in your bloodstream. Sounds painful.
Maybe my logic or legalese is rusty, but it seems like anyone, be it Ford, Microsoft, Compaq or Sony, can slap a lable and some sort of locking mechanism on any product of theirs I purchase, label it no user serviceable parts inside, and suddenly I have lost my right to change the oil in my own car (authorized for technicians only), fix conflicts in my operating system (oh, wait..). Can't upgrade my RAM without opening that locked out case containing "protected" technology (guess I''ll have to buy a whole new machine for every upgrade), can't even solder a repair to the loose jack on my protable cd player. What can't be locked up under this sort of clause? It seems like this act, intended perhaps to protect ingenuity and creative drive, instead will squelch it. Take it apart, put it back together, it is how we learn, whether it is a engine or an OS.
Put up a couple of signs around the dorms in september, and (as evil as i am)I charge $5 to resurrect someone's dead floppy. It takes a lot to really kill them, and even then it is usually a quick fix to either place the disk itself in a new case because the little metal flap thingies got bent in a backpack. (do these have names?) Heck, you can use QBasic!! half the time to try and recover text files on a damaged disc. It's how I make my beer money! Let floppies live! Seriously though, you will never be able to get your students to use the network drives effectively. Though I would have to rank my university as moderate to low as a rating for the technological literacy of students, i doubt anywhere that you will teach this to the majority of your student body. Come on, the same students who you would teach how to use a network drive are the ones who are naturally inquistive enough to figure it out on their own. I know at least a dozen people who live on campus with Nic card built into their brand new 1.1ghz machine mom and dad bought them who still pay to use their AOL dial up accounts because they can't figure out how to dial four digits to get computing services to come to their room and configure the NIC..for free!! *sigh* The idea of the university automatically backing up files on machines nice..but in addition to the logistics, the big brother factor is a little too scary for me. Smart media is too expensive for college students.
well, since my buddy matt is at home and away from his computer, he probably doesn't know his creation is featured on slashdot (or that his server has been crushed...btw i think it is BSD) The lasers flicker in the mpeg because of the video camera, not the lasers. Your probably seeing in the neighborhood of $2500 in gear. it is only dangerous to your eyes if you look into the beam..duh. Lasers will be the entertainment technology of the future. We are starting to be able to scan video and 3d rasters... getting high quality equipment isn't cheap and the US gov over-regulates us. Go to europe, see an audience scanning show and you will never have a need or desire for psychedelic drugs again because audience scanning lasers can create 3d worlds that totally immerse the audience. hmm..my elation at seeing one of my best friend's work on slashdot has me so surprised i can't think of anything else coherent to say.. (ha ha, coherent, its a laserist's joke :)