The first paragraph is priceless: "The system promises fewer computer crashes and will allow users to delete data from their hard drive." Wow! Now I can finally remove those old programs! Why didn't they come up with the delete function years ago?
Nice to see my elected official, Feingold, keeping some measure of sanity and not panicing. Like the rest of you I am going to remember this on election day.
Hmmmm, converting heat to power. Would there be a way to hook these puppies up to saw a laptop heatsink? Capture some of that excess, wasted heat to power the cooling fan or something. Granted yes, the fan takes a puny amount of power compared to everything else, but every little bit helps, right? Just think, if you had enough of them you could power up your hard drives from the heat off your monitor.
I REALLY hope this isn't passed. Looking past all the "it takes away my rights and gives them to big business!" issues, there is one simple idea to look at: whatever protection system they deploy would be broken in no time. Media protection schemes are cracked faster then a pane glass window shot with a tank. DVDs were cracked by one kid in his spare time and can now be cracked with a handfull of code, those wierd safe audio things were defeated in a few hours, there are even simple plans online to get around Macrovision protection comming off your video output! Thus, I feel that even if (god forbid) this thing were to get implimented it would be broken in a matter of days.
And not to mention the cost! According to the def in the Act, even things like hubs, switches, and my headphones would have to have this protection. Oh goody.
Many static discharges that you see after you rub your feet on the carpet then touch a doorknob or your little brother are actually higher then 12 volts. The reason it doesn't kill you is the extream lack of amperage. Therefore, it COULD be possible, I think, to short out a serial port with a static shock, as it would raise the voltages past its protective thresholds. The only way I can really think of about how to fix this is to use an optical connection or to have better grounding.
Good word! I still have yet to understand why everyone thinks Lucas is such a god, the guy positivly sucks as a director, or a writer, or a producer... And you're right, the orignal movies really weren't all that good, but I think even with the low end FX they were better writen then Phantom.
As a newbie to the linux world myself I must say that, for the most part, those in the know haev been pretty helpful. I was having a real hard time getting the audio to work on my laptop, and as I often bring it to anime club meetings to show music videos this is important. While we didn't get the problem solved, a couple people in the Debian room on IRC were very willing to assist me. Therefore, I don't think that people are unwilling to help us know-very-littles. However, I would contend that Linux is still a long way from becoming a mainstream OS. Not because there's a lack of software, far from it as we all know, but from the simple fact that it is still difficult to install and configure. Mandrake and Stormix worked hard to solve this problem, and are making good headway, but there still needs to be more done. Its a given that GNU/Linux kicks butt as a server, development, and workstation platform, but as a home or mainstream system it is lacking. Companies like HP, Acer, SMC, and all the others out there that make devices to attach to your computer realize that the home market is very, very large. Look at the success of "cute" devices like the iMac. Of course, this market is dominated by Apple and M$, and Linux gets left behind. However, once Linux smoothes out the installation, configuration (ever try adding a device to a linux machine?? What average home user is going to know or want to configure a.conf file?), and irons out a few GUI issues (I'd like to see more GNOME and KDE cross compatability) then we may see Linux on more and more home machines. I mean, do you know of any average John and Jane Computer Buyer who would love to buy a computer that is easy to use (yet is still powerful and flexable enough for all the crazed hackers out there) for which they can download almost any app they may ever need for free? I sure can't think of one. And once the fire begins to spread we'll see more drivers available for all our toys.
I think they are concerned that the computer does too much of the work when creating a peice of art. I can spend a total of 5 min creating a nice looking "planet in space" scene, for instance. However, its this same powerful tool that lets us do amazing things. Some of the most complex and beautiful images I've seen come out of a computer have taken the artist days, weeks, or months to complete, even if it is just a still image. I'm not sure how they judge what "fine art" is, but they need to keep in mind that the computer is just a tool. Weather you're using something like SoftImage or programming a script to generate pretty colors, it should be the effort and emotion that goes into the work that should define its value, not the medium that created it. After all, are statues better then paintings?
Preach on Brother! Even my tiny PV-DC1080 takes better pictures then this! Maybe he was just too giddy with excitement. I don't think it was out of focus, just extreamly unsteady.
Hmmmm, interesting that you had trouble with D2 on your MX in D3D mode. I have an Asus 7100 and it runs smooth as a pool of pure mercury for me, I can even use the ELSA Revelator drivers and play with my shutter glasses. Yes I know, minimal effect but it does look nifty as shadows wrap around pillars and things. What version of DirectX are you using? What is your processor speed?
Has anyone else gotten pissed that something like Visual Studio doesn't work as a studio? What would be really cool is to have the ablitiy to write in multiple languages in one program. Obviously not everything is going to work and it would be tough, but just think of being able to write swap.java() that calls some math.cpp() or showme.vbasic() function...
I was a geek in school, still am. I had red hair (an EASY target) but I think I turned out ok. In fact, I'm often cursed cause I'm too nice. I've also played games ever sense I had my first 8086. I have yet to kill anybody. In fact, I've found that gaming instills just the opposite desire. Its something I enjoy, something I look forward too. Online gaming has helped in that regard as well. Go to any LAN party I can almost garrentee that noone there is packing. Everyone is having a good time at it. Sure, you may get irrittated that that punk keeps sniping you were ever you go, but then you switch games and snipe someone else. The point to all this rambling is games may actually be part of the solution,not the problem. It allows us an escape route for our pent up anger, the modern punching bag. I personaly enjoy comming home after work to hunt down Diablo and his minions. Lets get these kids some more practice time to help build their self esteme! (sorry for the crappy spelling.)
Wow, sounds like a laptop with the screen facing up and you can use a pen like you can on PDAs. wooooo. Give them points for reusing old technology. I'm not saying these won't be cool, just that its about as innovative as adding a color screen to a PDA, its more along the lines of "well, duh." This sounds like it will be just like a PDA only bigger. Why not just mix it in with eletronic ink? That would make it thinner, use less power, add more contrast, and would probably be a lot cooler then these things.
With the Unix (BSD) base, wouldn't be fairly simple to get it running on other BSD platforms? Obviously its not something you can jusy whip together, but as the kernal is already ported, wouldn't bringing the rest of it be fairly simple? In seeing what M$ has planned for us with the horrid looking resource hogging XP, I am looking for alterenitives. Saddly I don't have enough expertese to do much with GNU/Linux releases, even though I have Debian on my "fun things to play with" box. For that matter, how difficult would it be to port OSX to use a Linux kernel?
And even if it weren't, there's nothing stopping me from using the Line In jack on my sound card and just recording the audio stream. Yeah, its not as fast or as cool as direct ripping, but it works just fine.
You know if they ever impliment this it will only take about a day for someone to write a work around. Come on, DeCSS was written by a single very smart 15 year old, now imagine what an entire community of pissed off hackers and coders can do. I was planning on moving to Fibre Channel anyway, RAID 5 on 4 ATA drives sucks, give me 127 or more devices on a single controller any day.
"Furthermore, the evidence is that open source does not tend to produce new innovation. For example, desktops such as KDE are based on older products from Apple and MS. When open source is the only thing remaining, innovation will obviously be reduced."
And those two were based off of a GUI from Zerox, so ha!
This seems to tie in to the claim by MS, and justly so, the Linux is becoming their biggest threat. And now, in typical MS fasion, they are trying to squish it in any way possible. It seems that currently their plan is to try and crush the OpenSource enviroment. Obviously this is sick and wrong. I wonder if it would be possible to send all these comments to MS and see what sort of reaction we get.
Giggles Of Doom
"I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person."
As they seem to want to make them out of transparent plastic, wouldn't it be logical to try using photonic transisters rather then electronic ones?
After all, it seems that most of the arguements placed here are conserns about electron lag (the huge distances they have to travel), heat, and power consumption. Photons offer a possible solution to these problems, even if the technology is a ways off. They don't produce much heat, they use less power, and they travel easier.
Another consern is the detail you can get with this press process. I think we may all have the printing press metophor on our brain. I don't think they will be whipping these things off like they do newspapers. There wouldn't really be a need to make hundreds of thousands a day. By slowing down the process you can acchive more detail. For example, look at the deatail your laser printer can produce vs that of newsprint.
-Giggles of Doom
"See Tokyo Tower over there? Go get it for me."
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The first paragraph is priceless: "The system promises fewer computer crashes and will allow users to delete data from their hard drive." Wow! Now I can finally remove those old programs! Why didn't they come up with the delete function years ago?
Nice to see my elected official, Feingold, keeping some measure of sanity and not panicing. Like the rest of you I am going to remember this on election day.
Hmmmm, converting heat to power. Would there be a way to hook these puppies up to saw a laptop heatsink? Capture some of that excess, wasted heat to power the cooling fan or something. Granted yes, the fan takes a puny amount of power compared to everything else, but every little bit helps, right? Just think, if you had enough of them you could power up your hard drives from the heat off your monitor.
I REALLY hope this isn't passed. Looking past all the "it takes away my rights and gives them to big business!" issues, there is one simple idea to look at: whatever protection system they deploy would be broken in no time. Media protection schemes are cracked faster then a pane glass window shot with a tank. DVDs were cracked by one kid in his spare time and can now be cracked with a handfull of code, those wierd safe audio things were defeated in a few hours, there are even simple plans online to get around Macrovision protection comming off your video output! Thus, I feel that even if (god forbid) this thing were to get implimented it would be broken in a matter of days.
And not to mention the cost! According to the def in the Act, even things like hubs, switches, and my headphones would have to have this protection. Oh goody.
Many static discharges that you see after you rub your feet on the carpet then touch a doorknob or your little brother are actually higher then 12 volts. The reason it doesn't kill you is the extream lack of amperage. Therefore, it COULD be possible, I think, to short out a serial port with a static shock, as it would raise the voltages past its protective thresholds. The only way I can really think of about how to fix this is to use an optical connection or to have better grounding.
Good word! I still have yet to understand why everyone thinks Lucas is such a god, the guy positivly sucks as a director, or a writer, or a producer... And you're right, the orignal movies really weren't all that good, but I think even with the low end FX they were better writen then Phantom.
As a newbie to the linux world myself I must say that, for the most part, those in the know haev been pretty helpful. I was having a real hard time getting the audio to work on my laptop, and as I often bring it to anime club meetings to show music videos this is important. While we didn't get the problem solved, a couple people in the Debian room on IRC were very willing to assist me. Therefore, I don't think that people are unwilling to help us know-very-littles. However, I would contend that Linux is still a long way from becoming a mainstream OS. Not because there's a lack of software, far from it as we all know, but from the simple fact that it is still difficult to install and configure. Mandrake and Stormix worked hard to solve this problem, and are making good headway, but there still needs to be more done. Its a given that GNU/Linux kicks butt as a server, development, and workstation platform, but as a home or mainstream system it is lacking. Companies like HP, Acer, SMC, and all the others out there that make devices to attach to your computer realize that the home market is very, very large. Look at the success of "cute" devices like the iMac. Of course, this market is dominated by Apple and M$, and Linux gets left behind. However, once Linux smoothes out the installation, configuration (ever try adding a device to a linux machine?? What average home user is going to know or want to configure a .conf file?), and irons out a few GUI issues (I'd like to see more GNOME and KDE cross compatability) then we may see Linux on more and more home machines. I mean, do you know of any average John and Jane Computer Buyer who would love to buy a computer that is easy to use (yet is still powerful and flexable enough for all the crazed hackers out there) for which they can download almost any app they may ever need for free? I sure can't think of one. And once the fire begins to spread we'll see more drivers available for all our toys.
I think they are concerned that the computer does too much of the work when creating a peice of art. I can spend a total of 5 min creating a nice looking "planet in space" scene, for instance. However, its this same powerful tool that lets us do amazing things. Some of the most complex and beautiful images I've seen come out of a computer have taken the artist days, weeks, or months to complete, even if it is just a still image. I'm not sure how they judge what "fine art" is, but they need to keep in mind that the computer is just a tool. Weather you're using something like SoftImage or programming a script to generate pretty colors, it should be the effort and emotion that goes into the work that should define its value, not the medium that created it. After all, are statues better then paintings?
Preach on Brother! Even my tiny PV-DC1080 takes better pictures then this! Maybe he was just too giddy with excitement. I don't think it was out of focus, just extreamly unsteady.
Hmmmm, interesting that you had trouble with D2 on your MX in D3D mode. I have an Asus 7100 and it runs smooth as a pool of pure mercury for me, I can even use the ELSA Revelator drivers and play with my shutter glasses. Yes I know, minimal effect but it does look nifty as shadows wrap around pillars and things. What version of DirectX are you using? What is your processor speed?
Has anyone else gotten pissed that something like Visual Studio doesn't work as a studio? What would be really cool is to have the ablitiy to write in multiple languages in one program. Obviously not everything is going to work and it would be tough, but just think of being able to write swap.java() that calls some math.cpp() or showme.vbasic() function...
I was a geek in school, still am. I had red hair (an EASY target) but I think I turned out ok. In fact, I'm often cursed cause I'm too nice. I've also played games ever sense I had my first 8086. I have yet to kill anybody. In fact, I've found that gaming instills just the opposite desire. Its something I enjoy, something I look forward too. Online gaming has helped in that regard as well. Go to any LAN party I can almost garrentee that noone there is packing. Everyone is having a good time at it. Sure, you may get irrittated that that punk keeps sniping you were ever you go, but then you switch games and snipe someone else. The point to all this rambling is games may actually be part of the solution,not the problem. It allows us an escape route for our pent up anger, the modern punching bag. I personaly enjoy comming home after work to hunt down Diablo and his minions. Lets get these kids some more practice time to help build their self esteme! (sorry for the crappy spelling.)
Wow, sounds like a laptop with the screen facing up and you can use a pen like you can on PDAs. wooooo. Give them points for reusing old technology. I'm not saying these won't be cool, just that its about as innovative as adding a color screen to a PDA, its more along the lines of "well, duh." This sounds like it will be just like a PDA only bigger. Why not just mix it in with eletronic ink? That would make it thinner, use less power, add more contrast, and would probably be a lot cooler then these things.
And everyone wonders why I use Eudora and PINE...
With the Unix (BSD) base, wouldn't be fairly simple to get it running on other BSD platforms? Obviously its not something you can jusy whip together, but as the kernal is already ported, wouldn't bringing the rest of it be fairly simple? In seeing what M$ has planned for us with the horrid looking resource hogging XP, I am looking for alterenitives. Saddly I don't have enough expertese to do much with GNU/Linux releases, even though I have Debian on my "fun things to play with" box. For that matter, how difficult would it be to port OSX to use a Linux kernel?
And even if it weren't, there's nothing stopping me from using the Line In jack on my sound card and just recording the audio stream. Yeah, its not as fast or as cool as direct ripping, but it works just fine.
You know if they ever impliment this it will only take about a day for someone to write a work around. Come on, DeCSS was written by a single very smart 15 year old, now imagine what an entire community of pissed off hackers and coders can do. I was planning on moving to Fibre Channel anyway, RAID 5 on 4 ATA drives sucks, give me 127 or more devices on a single controller any day.
"Furthermore, the evidence is that open source does not tend to produce new innovation. For example, desktops such as KDE are based on older products from Apple and MS. When open source is the only thing remaining, innovation will obviously be reduced." And those two were based off of a GUI from Zerox, so ha!
This seems to tie in to the claim by MS, and justly so, the Linux is becoming their biggest threat. And now, in typical MS fasion, they are trying to squish it in any way possible. It seems that currently their plan is to try and crush the OpenSource enviroment. Obviously this is sick and wrong. I wonder if it would be possible to send all these comments to MS and see what sort of reaction we get.
Giggles Of Doom
"I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person."
As they seem to want to make them out of transparent plastic, wouldn't it be logical to try using photonic transisters rather then electronic ones?
After all, it seems that most of the arguements placed here are conserns about electron lag (the huge distances they have to travel), heat, and power consumption. Photons offer a possible solution to these problems, even if the technology is a ways off. They don't produce much heat, they use less power, and they travel easier.
Another consern is the detail you can get with this press process. I think we may all have the printing press metophor on our brain. I don't think they will be whipping these things off like they do newspapers. There wouldn't really be a need to make hundreds of thousands a day. By slowing down the process you can acchive more detail. For example, look at the deatail your laser printer can produce vs that of newsprint.
-Giggles of Doom
"See Tokyo Tower over there? Go get it for me."