And do you know how hard it would be to successfully block all P2P traffic?
Especially with open source P2P clients, tweaks can be made by any developer, and packet encryption + random ports is basically standard features these days.
I'd say keeping up with P2P apps and blocking them successfully is as hard and futile as banning all RIAA recordings.
I agree, and it's interesting how I think mid-range cards have almost increased in price since earlier in the Geforce 2 days. At least it doesn't feel like I had to pay $300 before to get a mid-range "reasonably long lasting" card before, but maybe my memory fails me. It definitely doesn't seem like the price evolution for the computer system in general anyway, with even "old" 2 GHz CPU's doing well enough today for most, and same for 1 GB RAM which is cheap today. It's just like gfx card prices tend to stick or even get worse. Maybe simply because gamers don't mind paying.
The "gap" is pretty much the same from DVD->Blu-ray (5->25) as CD->DVD (0.8->5), and HD-DVD/Blu-ray enables a vastly improved video format (seeing is believing here) compared to DVD. Maybe not as improved, but there's still plenty of purchase incentive for many interested in audio/video.
If following your theory, the question one then need to ask is: does a bit smaller gap imply that consumers have a harder time understanding a new technology? What about 3G compared to WAP? Both let you browse the internet, the latter with mediocre video/image quality.
It would be interesting to see how far RIAA is willing to go with penalties for copyright infrigement. They're in favor of this one, sure, but how would media be protected if they wrote the laws, and how would the penalties look like? Only after knowing this would one truly know how disconnected they are from reality and proportional penalties to crimes.
Remember, EU is the place where "Intellectual Property" without restrictions was to be protected by the new constitution... but... it was voted down, as was software patents.
Of course, one can paint future doomsday scenarios, but what's saying the same thing wouldn't happen again? I'd think that since these matters have now been brought up, politicans have been informed enough to vote down these things, that the logical thing should be that these would be even easier voted down in the future. I think EU was at the highest risk of accepting these things when they were first brought up, because at a first glance to uninformed politicians, they may look really good.
This isn't about copyrights, it's about moral rights.
I doubt they're saying an art style is copyrighted, but I do believe they're using their rights to preserve "work integrity". The Berne Convention says:
Independently of the author's economic rights, and even after the transfer of the said rights, the author shall have the right to claim authorship of the work and to object to any distortion, mutilation or other modification of, or other derogatory action in relation to, the said work, which would be prejudicial to his honor or reputation.
I do believe this feels pretty nutty though, so don't believe I'm thinking this sounds like great news and intelligence at work on a high level.:-)
Philips acknowledged that this technology might not sit well with consumers and suggested in its patent filing that consumers be allowed to avoid the feature if they paid broadcasters a fee.
I think he was talking about 1 home user. It sounds like you're talking about a network server with "the users" and "all of our servers to a 6.5 TB array".
Good catch there. "Continue" should obviously be called "Delete", especially since it's a pretty destructive operation. "Skip" should be called "Continue" (because you didn't have any permission to start with), and IMO "Cancel" could be left as-is because it's a standard answer for aborting an operation, whatever it is. Especially if this dialog popped up as part of several operations (and you can't tell from that screenshot alone), Cancel would make sense to me to abort the whole thing.
XP windows (using the default Luna Blue theme) have a much lighter window border if they're inactive, as opposed to Aero Glass with quite minimal differences.
Windows Presentation Layer (Avalon) represents a different approach to GUI design. While some operating system like Java Desktop or OSX may use 3D hardware acceleration to render GUI, Windows will take it to new levels. Almost every physical property of a Windows control can be animated, its size, position, transparency. This includes transforming the control by rotations, shears, scaling, etc, all in 3D.
WPF/Avalon is backported to XP and not a big Vista purchase incentive.
Ugh... People mentioning Office 2007 products give me the shivers as being at least partially in an IT support team.:-/ That product line will be hell for support teams with its heavy deviations in the UI. It's like if the next release of a newbie-friendly distro like Ubuntu would suddenly only ship with Enlightenment instead of Gnome... Bright idea for, you know, the most used Office product line in the world.
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And do you know how hard it would be to successfully block all P2P traffic?
Especially with open source P2P clients, tweaks can be made by any developer, and packet encryption + random ports is basically standard features these days.
I'd say keeping up with P2P apps and blocking them successfully is as hard and futile as banning all RIAA recordings.
Google didn't complain much when Safari came out with a Google-only search box.
And neither did Microsoft. But you can bet MS would if Google had certain demands on them from the DoJ due to their monopolistic situation.
I agree, and it's interesting how I think mid-range cards have almost increased in price since earlier in the Geforce 2 days. At least it doesn't feel like I had to pay $300 before to get a mid-range "reasonably long lasting" card before, but maybe my memory fails me. It definitely doesn't seem like the price evolution for the computer system in general anyway, with even "old" 2 GHz CPU's doing well enough today for most, and same for 1 GB RAM which is cheap today. It's just like gfx card prices tend to stick or even get worse. Maybe simply because gamers don't mind paying.
However, that doesn't mean they're automatically untrue, just not (yet or not) founded with facts.
Wow, what a horrible HTML mistake. I lost 10 points of geekness right there. :-(
The only marketing video I can think of when I hear Wii nowadays, or for that matter, Wheeee! is http://www.firefoxflicks.com/flick/?id=19542">this one...
but any current 10/100 or better network card works fine.
The grandparent said he downloaded at over 100 Mbps.
The camera doesn't excite me either, even with the named lens. Big deal.
You're talking about this "named lens" like it was just some random manufacture they happened to name in this case...
The "gap" is pretty much the same from DVD->Blu-ray (5->25) as CD->DVD (0.8->5), and HD-DVD/Blu-ray enables a vastly improved video format (seeing is believing here) compared to DVD. Maybe not as improved, but there's still plenty of purchase incentive for many interested in audio/video.
If following your theory, the question one then need to ask is: does a bit smaller gap imply that consumers have a harder time understanding a new technology? What about 3G compared to WAP? Both let you browse the internet, the latter with mediocre video/image quality.
No, linux is an implementation of Unix, not a reinvention of it. It's POSIX-compliant.
/ reskit/poscomp.mspx?mfr=true
Hehe.. Well.. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/ntwrkstn
2050 is a hell of a long time for tech already available today, you do realize that, don't you?
The lecture you were on was also 10 years ago.
In 1950 we barely even had computers in the normal meaning of the word.
Would it really take that long for existing tech to get cheap enough to be useful for entertainment systems?
No, no, Beta 2 was released just now and the article isn't stupid, but the About box said Beta 2 for the Preview too.
You probably used the Beta 2 Preview.
It would be interesting to see how far RIAA is willing to go with penalties for copyright infrigement. They're in favor of this one, sure, but how would media be protected if they wrote the laws, and how would the penalties look like? Only after knowing this would one truly know how disconnected they are from reality and proportional penalties to crimes.
Remember, EU is the place where "Intellectual Property" without restrictions was to be protected by the new constitution ... but... it was voted down, as was software patents.
Of course, one can paint future doomsday scenarios, but what's saying the same thing wouldn't happen again? I'd think that since these matters have now been brought up, politicans have been informed enough to vote down these things, that the logical thing should be that these would be even easier voted down in the future. I think EU was at the highest risk of accepting these things when they were first brought up, because at a first glance to uninformed politicians, they may look really good.
This isn't about copyrights, it's about moral rights.
:-)
I doubt they're saying an art style is copyrighted, but I do believe they're using their rights to preserve "work integrity". The Berne Convention says:
Independently of the author's economic rights, and even after the transfer of the said rights, the author shall have the right to claim authorship of the work and to object to any distortion, mutilation or other modification of, or other derogatory action in relation to, the said work, which would be prejudicial to his honor or reputation.
I do believe this feels pretty nutty though, so don't believe I'm thinking this sounds like great news and intelligence at work on a high level.
Egoistic as a company, yes, not egoistic per individual/grouping, which can be a problem in open source organizations.
Philips acknowledged that this technology might not sit well with consumers and suggested in its patent filing that consumers be allowed to avoid the feature if they paid broadcasters a fee.
We already do!
OTOH, I still use my 160 GB drive from 4-5 years back now without that much difficulties.
Did people successfully use 1 GB drives still in 2001?
I think he was talking about 1 home user. It sounds like you're talking about a network server with "the users" and "all of our servers to a 6.5 TB array".
Good catch there. "Continue" should obviously be called "Delete", especially since it's a pretty destructive operation. "Skip" should be called "Continue" (because you didn't have any permission to start with), and IMO "Cancel" could be left as-is because it's a standard answer for aborting an operation, whatever it is. Especially if this dialog popped up as part of several operations (and you can't tell from that screenshot alone), Cancel would make sense to me to abort the whole thing.
XP windows (using the default Luna Blue theme) have a much lighter window border if they're inactive, as opposed to Aero Glass with quite minimal differences.
Windows Presentation Layer (Avalon) represents a different approach to GUI design. While some operating system like Java Desktop or OSX may use 3D hardware acceleration to render GUI, Windows will take it to new levels. Almost every physical property of a Windows control can be animated, its size, position, transparency. This includes transforming the control by rotations, shears, scaling, etc, all in 3D.
WPF/Avalon is backported to XP and not a big Vista purchase incentive.
This is correct, and *I* thought WinFS was therefore short for Windows Future Storage.
Ugh... People mentioning Office 2007 products give me the shivers as being at least partially in an IT support team. :-/ That product line will be hell for support teams with its heavy deviations in the UI. It's like if the next release of a newbie-friendly distro like Ubuntu would suddenly only ship with Enlightenment instead of Gnome... Bright idea for, you know, the most used Office product line in the world.