My guess is that a lot of the people reading this thread are into sci-fi/cyberpunk, and I'd be curious to see what you guys think (Keep in mind that it's a rough draft). I only have about 20 pages or so written, but most of the people who've read it said it was ok, or at least, not that bad.
I hope this isn't entirely offtopic, at least:). Oh, and I was lying about the money.
Well it's going to be encrypted, well laudy frickin da! Everyone knows encryption,
Erm, no... copy protection was ment to be broken, not encryption. DeCSS dosn't break the encryption, only the protection of the Decryption keys.
The people who are showing the movie would be able to pirate it, but people who, say, tap the line would not be able to. Since they have no clue what the keys are.
Sure, you could theroreticaly break the encryption, if you wanted to spend $40,000 a year for the next four thousand years or something...
Yeh, so now you're taking technical advice from Lars? A guy who says he's only used the net once?
And anyway, even if they could monitor downloads (whitch I doubt), they banned people who were serving mp3's not downloading them. I'm certan that the quote represents a missunderstanding on Lars's part, a person who probably only leanred the diffrence between uploading and downloading about a month ago.
Yeh, but you don't need to install realmedia's crappy-ass player that spawns all over your hard drive, and probably reports you're activitys to real...
Um, the movie, is about 2.417terrabytes uncompressesed, if you go by the bandwidth/download time posted on the fron't page. You'd need a lot of 50gb hard drives in jacket pockets to pull that off. 49, infact, and then it would kinda be a pain to hook them all up in the theater as well.
We arn't talking about a DVD file here. This a moive, and I'm guessing losslessly compressed as well
Do you know how many polys I'd use to make a ping pong ball? (wait for it).... One.
Actualy, its more likely that they're using two poly's, since most hardware is optimized for triangles. You'd need two triangles to make a square bounding box. That demo didn't really look that impressive to me anyway
I mean, I can do kenetic physics in real time on a ti-83, in interpreted basic for one ball. I would excpect that this X-box is a bit faster then interpreted basic on a ti-83, wouldn't you?
They are 'defending' their copyright and property rights (although I think it's on rather shaky ground, their reasoning I mean). They have to do this sort of thing as part of maintaining their copyright.
no, what the hell is wrong with you? All IP is not the same, trademarks need to be defended, copyright does not, and patents do not.
Welcome to the world that you get when corporations begin to run everything. Your rights are governed by contracts, nothing so noble as a constitutional right.
Hrm, isn't the constitution a contract, one that limits the governments power?
Um, EBay is a private company, and not really in the 'monopoly' position Microsoft is in, I don't see why they can't try to control what's sold through their channels.
They don't have (or don't want to spend) the time or the money to pay for investigations into every complaint, so why should they? Perhaps EBay users should be allowed to pay in to fund better investigation, similar to the way we pay taxes to pay for a Judicial system.
But, I digress. EBay can do whatever it likes, for all I care; there are plenty of other auction sites if you want to sell your licensed software.
When you pirate copyrighted material, you remove the chance (or some of the chance) for a company to sell it to you.
This goes a long with the idea of 'opportunity cost' in economics. Of course, the problem with that word, or phrase, is that branless morons would equate probablity theft with real theft.
I don't really see what the problem is with 'copyright infringement', I mean, that's what you get charged with if you were to break the law.
Likewise, most of the people who pirate MP3 would not go into Tower and hold the place up for CD's (the moral equivalent).
Its more like slipping a few CDs in your overcoat (if even that). You arn't holding a gun in anyones face when you download an MP3 (holding a gun at someone is assult). To say that napster is the moral equivalent of a gun is ludicrous.
Perhaps in another few decades the 'modern' world will give way to a new order with the core values being 'life, liberty, the persuit of happiness, and a free exchange of ideas'.. but until then we geeks must continue to don our digital ski masks and fight the power.
From what I've seen of the world, we are much more likely to end up with 'life, liberty, the persuit of happiness, and IP', and I don't mean internet protocol
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I'm also an ex-evolutionist.
So, you're a moron, basicaly.
And make money fast while you do it!
:). Oh, and I was lying about the money.
Actually, I'm not done with it yet, but what I have done is posted on the web.
My guess is that a lot of the people reading this thread are into sci-fi/cyberpunk, and I'd be curious to see what you guys think (Keep in mind that it's a rough draft). I only have about 20 pages or so written, but most of the people who've read it said it was ok, or at least, not that bad.
I hope this isn't entirely offtopic, at least
hrm, this story was up a day ago, then it dissapeared.
Now its back. strange.
Well it's going to be encrypted, well laudy frickin da! Everyone knows encryption,
Erm, no... copy protection was ment to be broken, not encryption. DeCSS dosn't break the encryption, only the protection of the Decryption keys.
The people who are showing the movie would be able to pirate it, but people who, say, tap the line would not be able to. Since they have no clue what the keys are.
Sure, you could theroreticaly break the encryption, if you wanted to spend $40,000 a year for the next four thousand years or something...
Yeh, so now you're taking technical advice from Lars? A guy who says he's only used the net once?
And anyway, even if they could monitor downloads (whitch I doubt), they banned people who were serving mp3's not downloading them. I'm certan that the quote represents a missunderstanding on Lars's part, a person who probably only leanred the diffrence between uploading and downloading about a month ago.
Yeh, but you don't need to install realmedia's crappy-ass player that spawns all over your hard drive, and probably reports you're activitys to real...
Um, the movie, is about 2.417terrabytes uncompressesed, if you go by the bandwidth/download time posted on the fron't page. You'd need a lot of 50gb hard drives in jacket pockets to pull that off. 49, infact, and then it would kinda be a pain to hook them all up in the theater as well.
We arn't talking about a DVD file here. This a moive, and I'm guessing losslessly compressed as well
I read about FOURTH in an assembly book once, mentioned in passing only as a language that had about the same appeal/hype as java.
What exactly was it? My only guess is that it was supposed to be a Fourth generation language...
The result that really surprised me, though, was Cygwin32 beating MS VC almost across the board - running on Windows! WTF?!
Well, Cygwin with an insain amount of hand-tweaked, unstable compiler optimizations VC++ beat the baseline most of the time.
I'm just glad there's a good X-server that runs on win32... is this prog free, or do you have to pay for it?
300% is new, but so what.
um, that's 30,000%, not 300% (300 times)
Do you know how many polys I'd use to make a ping pong ball? (wait for it).... One.
Actualy, its more likely that they're using two poly's, since most hardware is optimized for triangles. You'd need two triangles to make a square bounding box. That demo didn't really look that impressive to me anyway
Yet it will probably still lose because Joe Sixpack likes a familiar brand and more polys on his screen than pixels...
Are you saying that 'sega' isn't a familar brand now?
I mean, I can do kenetic physics in real time on a ti-83, in interpreted basic for one ball. I would excpect that this X-box is a bit faster then interpreted basic on a ti-83, wouldn't you?
Damn, why did IGN put so much JPG compression in those images, they looked like crap!
They are 'defending' their copyright and property rights (although I think it's on rather shaky ground, their reasoning I mean). They have to do this sort of thing as part of maintaining their copyright.
no, what the hell is wrong with you? All IP is not the same, trademarks need to be defended, copyright does not, and patents do not.
Its not 'is it legal to do it', its 'is it illegal for EBay to stop you from doing it on their site'
The first one is probably true, the second one probably isn't.
Welcome to the world that you get when corporations begin to run everything. Your rights are governed by contracts, nothing so noble as a constitutional right.
Hrm, isn't the constitution a contract, one that limits the governments power?
Um, EBay is a private company, and not really in the 'monopoly' position Microsoft is in, I don't see why they can't try to control what's sold through their channels.
They don't have (or don't want to spend) the time or the money to pay for investigations into every complaint, so why should they? Perhaps EBay users should be allowed to pay in to fund better investigation, similar to the way we pay taxes to pay for a Judicial system.
But, I digress. EBay can do whatever it likes, for all I care; there are plenty of other auction sites if you want to sell your licensed software.
why not just get a laptop?
cam-corder
When you pirate copyrighted material, you remove the chance (or some of the chance) for a company to sell it to you.
This goes a long with the idea of 'opportunity cost' in economics. Of course, the problem with that word, or phrase, is that branless morons would equate probablity theft with real theft.
I don't really see what the problem is with 'copyright infringement', I mean, that's what you get charged with if you were to break the law.
Mr.Seagrams man can take his anti-american words and shove them up his ass.
He's canadian. Infact, his company made a pretty penny bootlegging alchol down here in the prohibition years...
Likewise, most of the people who pirate MP3 would not go into Tower and hold the place up for CD's (the moral equivalent).
Its more like slipping a few CDs in your overcoat (if even that). You arn't holding a gun in anyones face when you download an MP3 (holding a gun at someone is assult). To say that napster is the moral equivalent of a gun is ludicrous.
Perhaps in another few decades the 'modern' world will give way to a new order with the core values being 'life, liberty, the persuit of happiness, and a free exchange of ideas'.. but until then we geeks must continue to don our digital ski masks and fight the power.
From what I've seen of the world, we are much more likely to end up with 'life, liberty, the persuit of happiness, and IP', and I don't mean internet protocol