They will do that. Try it, fuck it up royally, then get Oscar for it.
Alternately, they will try, see that it comes out so bad even they won't release it and can the project.
I'm rather pessimistic since the only (recent) case of "wrong man" that turned out good was LotR, probably because Jackson was doing crap minimal budget movies before and wasn't spoiled by Hollywood. This time they will assign a "pro" and he will do his worst.
And anyway, what's so hot in remaking anime as live-action? I never could understand that.
It's even worse than that, they're fundamentally not suited for the task at hand. A) They're not secret. B) They're not changable.
But... but... but... they are cool and biometric, like in that "Mission:Idiotic" movie! And there's a lot of money to be made selling the equipment and software and bullshit consulting.
See? It doesn't matter that biometric is a stupid idea for authentication as long as it's a good business to sell it to fools.
And there's that story about US Govt selling Enigma machines to backward countries years after the system was thoroughly broken...
Oh, they did. Just not in the way propaganda shows. Not one cavalry soldier would charge tanks with lance and sabre... they weren't dumb. The proof is that there are no charges of cavalry units agains tanks recorded in the history. That does not mean they never fought tanks, just that they did not charge at them - the charge was only one of the modes of combat (there are only 15 charges at all recorded for the whole 1939 campaign, all but one or two against infantry).
Instead they had antitank rifles (issue 1935, codename Uruguay). These could stop any tank Germans had at the beginning of the war (only later Tigers and Panthers had armor good enough to be safe - so Soviets built bigger antitank rifles). Also Polish cavalry would functions much like mobile infantry against fortified or armored force - move fast (faster that vehicles when offroad), leave the horses behind the hill and attack on foot, having more than twice the equipment of regular infrantry, since thay had horses to carry it. Larger units had artillery (pulled by horses of course).
One feature that humans have and (current) robots don't is the ability to understand situation (beyond simple rule-following) and have own decision. That is quite a good reason to send people on these missions.
On the other hand, just sending a team there and getting them back after a week of exploration IS a waste of resources. It's just a kind of "my peni^Wrocket is bigger than yours"... It will end the same way as the Apollo missions to the Moon: we'll collect some data, plant a flag or two and then just sit and reminisce what a great achievement this was.
The moonbase plan, that will probably be dropped as the Mars mission will go overbudget (as usual) is much more useful. A lot of learning opportunities, not to mention a great place to set up big guns and kindly ask for more funding;-).
There's no point in going to Mars unless we go there to set up forward base for colonization.
It's the only thing that protects a small inventor from having his inventions stolen by anyone who has more money.
Bullshit. Small inventor is not protected in any serious way. First, he may have trouble getting the patent at all, as it costs a lot of money to prepare and file it. Second, even a not very big corporation can still drag on the legal process if sued, to bankrupt the inventor.
It sucks to be a small inventor, with or without the patents...
MSFT has done an amazing job of locking people in. PC Gaming is predominantly a Direct X-driven industry. Take a look at Halo. People are going to stick w/ Windows instead of OS X or Linux as long as MS dominates the gaming world.
I don't see the great evil here. It's lock-in but not because of typical MS machinations, rather because they were first ones to provide one standardized and consistent development platform. OpenGL used to have serious problems with compatibility and features (since it was created not for gaming). Linux is not a contender for a gaming platform because of crappy video card drivers and Linus' stance is not helping there.
Give a PS3 or a Wii as a gift... or even an Xbox 360. Put an end to Windows gaming.
XBOX 360 IS Windows. Not the regular Windows, but still Windows. And anyway, consoles suck - any and all of them. Those controllers could easily win a prize for worst interface (even Wiimotes - they're great for some game types only but not others).
nd spend countless hours playing Battle for Wesnoth, Runescape, etc.
If that's the kind of game you like... I don't. So I don't have any choice as my favorite games run only on Windows.
To make Linux a serious gaming platform, two things are needed. First, a game library kit much like DirectX, fully supporting 3D acceleration, fancy audio etc WITHOUT need for installing bits and pieces manually. Highly standardized and backwardly compatible. Chances of such software appearing are close to zero (cue the great binary drivers debacle). Secondly, a way to put pressure on game publishers - right now they have many reasons to see Linux as niche system, hard to develop for, with limited sales potential. No wonder there are practically no Linux versions of current games.
So IBM can post record revenue and the sales team will get raises and bonuses? Very reasonable explanation for people having some IBM stock or working there...
Solution: DHT. Works nicely - a bit slower, but you still can join the swarm.
So they just need to meet one peer that know TPB torrents. Say, on a tracker distributing Linux... Then peer exchange and DHT will take care of the problem. Mission downloaded:-)
Deism = belief in some sort of god or conscious force/being running the universe, but unlike typical religions, the god of deists is not intervening regularly. Atheism = belief that there is no gods at all and no conscious force or being running the things.
Amazingly, followers of those philosophies are quite close in their choices and views, because both tend to consider "holy books", "prophets", "messages from God" and other "miracles" to be total bullshit and big religions to be a form of controlling people, without true spiritual value.
This just in: Undersea cable accidentally cut by stray anchor, whole Iran loses Internet connectivity. In other news, Navy anchor operator awarded medal for great service to Allah and the Iranian nation.
Some Toshiba laptops had an option to remove optical drive and put second battery in it's place. I think other manufacturers also offer this - however you always have to buy that CD/DVD anyway and the battery is extra.
No. We/you/them don't need this. Ignoring any moral problems with DRM as such, there is one practical issue: DRM does not work and cannot be made to work. You have to give to the recipient both a secret data and a key to decrypt it - sooner or later he's hoing to rip the key out and get the data in unencrypted form - there will be some delay, but the end result is known.
Nah, there were more pressing concerns, like xmas bonuses for the management. Once they go back from vacations and finish all that duty free booze, they're going to look into it. Really.
Because if a large portion of the population is a 'criminal' then the law ceases to be effective, the judicial system would break down during the enforcement of the law. It only works when the percentage of criminals is relatively small compared to the 'upstanding citizens'.
Two words: selective enforcement.
In fact, such situation is great for the proponents of excessive copyright and the state itself, as it is then possible to have a crime to pin on anyone that makes trouble. Like recently in Russia some opposition newspapers were harassed for "copyright violations", just in time to silence them before elections. And those not targeted will be more compliant, fearing crackdown.
If the EU really wants to do something good for the copyright owners then they should work on a restructuring of copyright in such a way that consumers and copyright owners will *both* feel treated fairly, instead of wasting their time and our money on this standardized DRM nonsense.
Surely, you jest.
Remember the software patents issue? How much it took to block it once but not for ever (yes, it's gonna be back sooner rather than later)? The bribery (codename: lobbying) is going full-tilt, with certain corporations and shill groups pouring money and some sold-out (or stupid) artists supporting that.
It has to get worse before it gets better, unfortunately. I don't like it, but it seems that until it hurts average people enough, nothing good will be done.
I think you have some good ideas, but I don't see why they should be specific to the media.
1. Agreed. I'd allow one or two extensions, with fee based on the revenue obtained from work.
2. Something like that is necessary to protect works rotting away when copyright holders don't want to sell them (for wahtever reason - if they can't make it profitable, why hold onto it anyway?). Not on sale for 5 years = lose copyright. (This should also apply to patents, but it's another topic)
3. Why not? Any incentive for corporations to behave is a good thing.
4. What you want here is probably within fair use even now. I'd say fair use needs to have some level of automatic protection, making it active block to suits when used within some sensible limit.
5. No automatic copyright on anything at all. This automatic thing creates great idiocy. Anything should be copyrightable, but require some minimal effort from the author. I don't need copyright on this post, but I'll need copyright when I'll create something valuable.
6. This is madness. I understand the copyright on the designs - but on the actual building?
1. These are not laws of nature, they can (and should) be renegotiated. Surely it wouldn't be easy to change these agreements, but not impossible.
2. Mr Artist can license to Mr Artist, Inc. The point of dividing into personal and corporate is to avoid the issue of assigning lifetime-plus right to effectively immortal being, which quite obviously does not fit with "for limited times".
IMHO the first step should be to fix the copyright with the actual creator and allow only licensing to other entities. That would weaken incentive (of mediacorps) to lobby for extensions. The next step would be reducing length of the term, for starters to lifetime plus zero (see? I'm willing to give authors that warm and fuzzy feeling that they won't see their works converted into some nasty shit). The final step should be setting the term at some reasonable fixed duration - 5 years is probably not enough, but 10-15 would be just fine.
Anyway, in 20 years this will blow over and we'll be seeing totally different situation. New generations grow without any respect for imaginary property (and in fact for bad laws in general). So our grandkids will have better copyright;-)
Truly, your prowess at predicting is second only to Sylvia Browne.
One problem however: there are some people, having significant bribery budgets, interested in keeping or even expanding these laws. My crystal ball says 50+ years before these laws are changed, for the greed of the lawmakers matches perfectly with fullness of RIAA/MPAA's pockets.
If that wasn't the case, these laws would have been repealed already or at least changed to some useful form. But in the real world, the Gold Rule rules.
As long as it's user's choice I see no problem. If you like it, fine. It might be even useful to have separate circuit (be it logical or physical) for low volume/low latency data and other one for high volume/don't care about latency transfers - that's what a lot of people do anyway with QoS setups.
The problem starts, as you probably can see, when it's the ISP's choice to classify traffic without asking the end users. And that's where these scaremongering proposals lead.
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They will do that. Try it, fuck it up royally, then get Oscar for it.
Alternately, they will try, see that it comes out so bad even they won't release it and can the project.
I'm rather pessimistic since the only (recent) case of "wrong man" that turned out good was LotR, probably because Jackson was doing crap minimal budget movies before and wasn't spoiled by Hollywood. This time they will assign a "pro" and he will do his worst.
And anyway, what's so hot in remaking anime as live-action? I never could understand that.
But... but... but... they are cool and biometric, like in that "Mission:Idiotic" movie! And there's a lot of money to be made selling the equipment and software and bullshit consulting.
See? It doesn't matter that biometric is a stupid idea for authentication as long as it's a good business to sell it to fools.
And there's that story about US Govt selling Enigma machines to backward countries years after the system was thoroughly broken...
Surely. Heads of the poor suckers done in by the bots would roll while FBI agents would get a raise for uncovering "nationwide criminal ring".
Oh, they did. Just not in the way propaganda shows. Not one cavalry soldier would charge tanks with lance and sabre... they weren't dumb. The proof is that there are no charges of cavalry units agains tanks recorded in the history. That does not mean they never fought tanks, just that they did not charge at them - the charge was only one of the modes of combat (there are only 15 charges at all recorded for the whole 1939 campaign, all but one or two against infantry).
Instead they had antitank rifles (issue 1935, codename Uruguay). These could stop any tank Germans had at the beginning of the war (only later Tigers and Panthers had armor good enough to be safe - so Soviets built bigger antitank rifles). Also Polish cavalry would functions much like mobile infantry against fortified or armored force - move fast (faster that vehicles when offroad), leave the horses behind the hill and attack on foot, having more than twice the equipment of regular infrantry, since thay had horses to carry it. Larger units had artillery (pulled by horses of course).
One feature that humans have and (current) robots don't is the ability to understand situation (beyond simple rule-following) and have own decision. That is quite a good reason to send people on these missions.
;-).
On the other hand, just sending a team there and getting them back after a week of exploration IS a waste of resources. It's just a kind of "my peni^Wrocket is bigger than yours"... It will end the same way as the Apollo missions to the Moon: we'll collect some data, plant a flag or two and then just sit and reminisce what a great achievement this was.
The moonbase plan, that will probably be dropped as the Mars mission will go overbudget (as usual) is much more useful. A lot of learning opportunities, not to mention a great place to set up big guns and kindly ask for more funding
There's no point in going to Mars unless we go there to set up forward base for colonization.
Only electrolytic ones.
Life, get you should.
Bullshit.
Small inventor is not protected in any serious way. First, he may have trouble getting the patent at all, as it costs a lot of money to prepare and file it. Second, even a not very big corporation can still drag on the legal process if sued, to bankrupt the inventor.
It sucks to be a small inventor, with or without the patents...
I don't see the great evil here. It's lock-in but not because of typical MS machinations, rather because they were first ones to provide one standardized and consistent development platform. OpenGL used to have serious problems with compatibility and features (since it was created not for gaming). Linux is not a contender for a gaming platform because of crappy video card drivers and Linus' stance is not helping there.
XBOX 360 IS Windows. Not the regular Windows, but still Windows. And anyway, consoles suck - any and all of them. Those controllers could easily win a prize for worst interface (even Wiimotes - they're great for some game types only but not others).
If that's the kind of game you like... I don't. So I don't have any choice as my favorite games run only on Windows.
To make Linux a serious gaming platform, two things are needed. First, a game library kit much like DirectX, fully supporting 3D acceleration, fancy audio etc WITHOUT need for installing bits and pieces manually. Highly standardized and backwardly compatible. Chances of such software appearing are close to zero (cue the great binary drivers debacle). Secondly, a way to put pressure on game publishers - right now they have many reasons to see Linux as niche system, hard to develop for, with limited sales potential. No wonder there are practically no Linux versions of current games.
So IBM can post record revenue and the sales team will get raises and bonuses? Very reasonable explanation for people having some IBM stock or working there...
Solution: DHT. Works nicely - a bit slower, but you still can join the swarm.
:-)
So they just need to meet one peer that know TPB torrents. Say, on a tracker distributing Linux... Then peer exchange and DHT will take care of the problem. Mission downloaded
Quite a big one.
Deism = belief in some sort of god or conscious force/being running the universe, but unlike typical religions, the god of deists is not intervening regularly.
Atheism = belief that there is no gods at all and no conscious force or being running the things.
Amazingly, followers of those philosophies are quite close in their choices and views, because both tend to consider "holy books", "prophets", "messages from God" and other "miracles" to be total bullshit and big religions to be a form of controlling people, without true spiritual value.
This just in: Undersea cable accidentally cut by stray anchor, whole Iran loses Internet connectivity. In other news, Navy anchor operator awarded medal for great service to Allah and the Iranian nation.
Some Toshiba laptops had an option to remove optical drive and put second battery in it's place. I think other manufacturers also offer this - however you always have to buy that CD/DVD anyway and the battery is extra.
No. We/you/them don't need this. Ignoring any moral problems with DRM as such, there is one practical issue: DRM does not work and cannot be made to work. You have to give to the recipient both a secret data and a key to decrypt it - sooner or later he's hoing to rip the key out and get the data in unencrypted form - there will be some delay, but the end result is known.
So why bother?
Shooting grenade launcher at knife fighting distance... not a best idea.
;-))
(see? Quake taught me some useful knowledge
Nah, there were more pressing concerns, like xmas bonuses for the management.
Once they go back from vacations and finish all that duty free booze, they're going to look into it. Really.
Two words: selective enforcement.
In fact, such situation is great for the proponents of excessive copyright and the state itself, as it is then possible to have a crime to pin on anyone that makes trouble. Like recently in Russia some opposition newspapers were harassed for "copyright violations", just in time to silence them before elections. And those not targeted will be more compliant, fearing crackdown.
Surely, you jest.
Remember the software patents issue? How much it took to block it once but not for ever (yes, it's gonna be back sooner rather than later)? The bribery (codename: lobbying) is going full-tilt, with certain corporations and shill groups pouring money and some sold-out (or stupid) artists supporting that.
It has to get worse before it gets better, unfortunately. I don't like it, but it seems that until it hurts average people enough, nothing good will be done.
I think you have some good ideas, but I don't see why they should be specific to the media.
1. Agreed. I'd allow one or two extensions, with fee based on the revenue obtained from work.
2. Something like that is necessary to protect works rotting away when copyright holders don't want to sell them (for wahtever reason - if they can't make it profitable, why hold onto it anyway?). Not on sale for 5 years = lose copyright. (This should also apply to patents, but it's another topic)
3. Why not? Any incentive for corporations to behave is a good thing.
4. What you want here is probably within fair use even now. I'd say fair use needs to have some level of automatic protection, making it active block to suits when used within some sensible limit.
5. No automatic copyright on anything at all. This automatic thing creates great idiocy. Anything should be copyrightable, but require some minimal effort from the author. I don't need copyright on this post, but I'll need copyright when I'll create something valuable.
6. This is madness. I understand the copyright on the designs - but on the actual building?
1. These are not laws of nature, they can (and should) be renegotiated. Surely it wouldn't be easy to change these agreements, but not impossible.
;-)
2. Mr Artist can license to Mr Artist, Inc. The point of dividing into personal and corporate is to avoid the issue of assigning lifetime-plus right to effectively immortal being, which quite obviously does not fit with "for limited times".
IMHO the first step should be to fix the copyright with the actual creator and allow only licensing to other entities. That would weaken incentive (of mediacorps) to lobby for extensions. The next step would be reducing length of the term, for starters to lifetime plus zero (see? I'm willing to give authors that warm and fuzzy feeling that they won't see their works converted into some nasty shit). The final step should be setting the term at some reasonable fixed duration - 5 years is probably not enough, but 10-15 would be just fine.
Anyway, in 20 years this will blow over and we'll be seeing totally different situation. New generations grow without any respect for imaginary property (and in fact for bad laws in general). So our grandkids will have better copyright
Truly, your prowess at predicting is second only to Sylvia Browne.
One problem however: there are some people, having significant bribery budgets, interested in keeping or even expanding these laws. My crystal ball says 50+ years before these laws are changed, for the greed of the lawmakers matches perfectly with fullness of RIAA/MPAA's pockets.
If that wasn't the case, these laws would have been repealed already or at least changed to some useful form. But in the real world, the Gold Rule rules.
As long as it's user's choice I see no problem. If you like it, fine. It might be even useful to have separate circuit (be it logical or physical) for low volume/low latency data and other one for high volume/don't care about latency transfers - that's what a lot of people do anyway with QoS setups.
The problem starts, as you probably can see, when it's the ISP's choice to classify traffic without asking the end users. And that's where these scaremongering proposals lead.
Worry not, for he has gathered whole exabyte of women. A purest selection of JPEG graven images and HD video with 7.1 sound.
Managers don't like their speeches noise-cancelled?
Also it's quite hard to use phone while wearing them (headphones, not managers
Under the reasoning used by US military to bomb civilian targets - of course. That's obviously dual use facility.