From the Wikipedia. "Bell was a British subject throughout his early life in Scotland and later in Canada until 1882, when he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. In 1915, he characterized his status as: "I am not one of those hyphenated Americans who claim allegiance to two countries."
HDCP is required to play HD content at 1080p on a display AKA Blueray. It's function was to "close" the analog hole. You know so you couldn't just record your 1080P video output.
So yes HDCP is now useless because digital copying of BlueRay disks is now common.
What HDCP does accomplish is that it punishes honest users.
It is impossible for me to play the BlueRay DVD I own on my PC at 1080p because my monitor only has DVI. But I can download it and play it on my computer from a Torrent. There now you might understand. HDCP only use is to punish honest users.
But Sandy Bridge isn't really a server side chip. virtualization workloads are not really important for this CPU unless you are running a Mac and Parallels.
Cray was formed when Cray left CDC so I wouldn't count that. Other than that being chopped into pieces and sold off bit by bit kind of is the definition of dead.
But DRM can never really work. You can not give someone the ability to decode a digital source but not the ability to copy it. And you must decode it to play it.
DRM only hurts paying customers. Right now I can get a program that will rip Bluerays right of the internet. http://www.blurayripper.org/#decrypt
What good is HDCP at this point? What good is the DRM on Bluerays. It will only stop any pirate that is too dumb to google BlueRay ripper.
What harm does it do to a paying customer? It makes it hard for me to rip a DVD I OWN and put it on my personal media player. It makes it hard to rip a DVD I OWN and put it on my Laptop. It makes it hard for me to play a DVD I OWN on my Linux box.
My wife is an extremely ethical and honest person. We download a Japanese anime to watch because the US channel carrying it is way behind. Plus we like the subs better than the dubs. When those episodes come to DVD my wife buys them. It is fair to pay for what you want and just not take it. It is stupid to punish your paying customers.
"Basically, I think the world would be a more friendly place if this damned preacher would just shut up."
No not really. Let's face it we have been talking about a preacher with 50 folks that is going to burn some paper with words on it. And we are all up set he is going to do this because. Some people are going to start killing random people because some backwoods preacher with 50 followers where going to burn some paper with some words on it.
I can see being offended and even angry but to do violence over it?
It honestly seems to me that the preacher is a minor jerk. The Muslims that would do violence are the major problem.
Are we all just willing to violate one persons freedom of speech because of threats and crazy talk by a group of fanatics.
Yes and no. Google is great but just too easy to abuse. Google Montauk Project and you find all sorts of interesting stuff that has every possibility of making you stupid. If not you at least some people
The problem with search engines is that they are full of unverified data and a large number of people have never been taught the skills that are needed to separate the wheat from the chaff. Many generations have been taught that if it is in a book then it is true and to them the internet seems like one very large book. Very few of us seem to know how fact check. What is worse is we also have a group that believes that if a doctor, scientist, or goverment lab says one thing and a guy on a TV talk show says something else to trust the guy on the TV or Blog!
And do not get me started on the Bozo that once told me that I was a "happy villager" because I believed that if aliens didn't want us to know they where flying around they would be smart enough to turn their lights off.
I do not know. Maybe gifting a home is excluded. However like most things it isn't all bad or all good. Seaside provides a very nice community. They have sidewalks and really good town planning. This probably offsets some of the cost of the HOA.
"Welcome to the future, I get to decide the font and point size of books I read."
People still expect a book to be well laid out. Even if you can adjust the font and point size. T
I suggest you try this. Get read a few chapters of a book a real book. Then read the same amount of text with no layout work done. You will see a real difference even if you will not admit it. Honestly it usually takes more than a day to do the layout and check proofs.
I guess you didn't read the entire post. "An author will get probably get.40-.80 on a paperback that retails for $8. Make an investment in your book of the same size as a publisher's advance and you'll get as much or more than you would with a publisher."
Well yea that is why I said. "The end result should be that the cost per person should come down but it shouldn't become zero. If it becomes zero then production will stop." So after all your complaining and whining you are saying that I am right.
Already happened. There is a comunity called Seaside in Florida. It has gotten many awards and is pretty famous. One of the ways they make money is when you buy a home you agree to only sell the home through Seaside reality. So they get a cut every time the home is sold forever.
Not really. People do release books under creative commons. People will choose to write FOSS including myself.
But even under the FOSS model people want to get paid. They may bet paid by offering services like adding features to the software or supporting the software.
The other model is the I need it. I needed a feature in a program. I can write code so I added it and contributed the code back.
The final one is the guy that likes to do it as a hobby. Which is fine also and does happen with authors as well.
But even then their are still huge gaps in the FOSS world. The big one for me is the lack of a good 3d cad solution. There isn't a 3d FOSS cad solution as good as SolidWorks or ProE. Heck there isn't even one as good as TurboCad.
The thing is that no one should be FORCED to release their code under the GPL. No one should their work without their permission. If you don't like it do as you are doing and don't use it. It is as simple as that.
I don't know. Mark Hurd made a mint for HP. "Under his leadership, the company has been the first in the sale of desktop computers since 2007, and laptop computers since 2006. In 2008, it also increased its market share in inkjet and laser printers to 46% and 50.5%, respectively."
He is also a blood thirsty shark.
Maybe Sun will branch out into desktops and notebooks. Actually I see Sun going after HP's server market tooth and nail as well as Dell's.
I keep hearing people talk about artificial scarcity. What we are actually dealing with is an artificial abundance caused by digital copying. People keep talking about how the cost to produce a book, movie, TV Show, or song is now practically nothing.
That is a false statement. The cost to produce those things has been decreased they are still far from zero. Let's take a book for example. It may take an author six months too write a book. It may take an editor three weeks to edit it. It may take a typesetter/layout artist a day to lay it out and check the proofs.
That is all labor and costs money. Now the author often gets no pay for his labor. He is making an investment that he will get paid. The publisher invests his money in the editing laying out of the book for production as well as advertising. Most books do not make a profit.
The way the system works is that we pay a small amount for book, movie, TV Show, and more Music compared to what it cost to make because the cost of duplication means that the cost can be spread over a large number of people.
Digital copying provided the illusion that the cost to produce these things is zero. It is not. The cost to duplicate them is very close to zero. That is the problem The end result should be that the cost per person should come down but it shouldn't become zero. If ti becomes zero then production will stop. There are two problems. The current producers want the decreased cost of duplication to mean increased profits for them. They see this as windfall. Consumers are ignoring the cost of production and only seeing the cost of duplication and want it for free.
The problem really isn't one of economics but one of greed. Actually two problems of greed. The greed of the media companies that want an even larger profit margin. and The greed of consumers that want the media but want it for free.
If we could just solve human greed then we wouldn't have this problem. The consumers would be willing to pay a fair price and the produces would be happy with a fair profit.
The cost of duplication is practically free but that isn't new. The printing press reduced the cost of duplicating a book as well.
The entire idea of copyright laws is to provide an incentive to publish and create works that can be duplicated easily.
In many ways it works like venture capital or a start up company. An author invests their time which could be working or or doing a different activity creating a work. He has no guaranty that he will make any money off the effort. Most authors do not get rich or even make a living from writing books. He then has the promise of law that he can set a price for his work and sell it. The same applies to the publisher. We then get to buy the book for a small percentage of the cost of producing the book. AKA the amount of time the author spend writing, the editors spent editing it, and the typesetters spent laying it out. The reason why we can pay so little is because the actual duplication of the book is cheap. The publisher and the author can sell lots of copies so they spread out the cost over every person.
Yes duplication is cheap and frankly the digital age is just the next step. It probably costs less than $2 to print and bind a paper back. It costs less than $1 to press and record or a CD. Copyright laws allow authors and publishers to have a hope of recovering their investment and maybe making a profit. In other words the part you say now is almost free was also pretty cheap before. But the actual cost to produce a book has not gone down. It has in fact gone up. It was all manual labor and pretty much still is. What you are confusing is the cost of duplication with the cost of creation.
Now the problem IMHO still is that publishers are charging too much for digital copies. A publisher had to invest a lot upfront in printing a book. They ran a good amount of risk and incurred a good amount of cost in printing thousands of books that may not sell, warehousing them, and shipping them to stores. The Stores used to also need to make a profit off each book sold to keep the lights on and pay the rent. They still do but an estore will be a lot cheaper than a chain of books stores. All those costs and risks are now gone. Also their is no reason for any book to now go out of print. There are no digital print runs. The same thing goes with movies and video. For the most part they are now 100% profit after you take out the royalties.
I do not think that I should have to pay $5 for an electronic copy of a book that is years old and 99 cents a song is also pretty high.
I guess that I am surpprised at how much money Oracle has. I do not think that the FOSS world has much to worry about from Oracle Microsoft does. Remember Oracles NC netcomputer push back in the 90s. It was Google Chrome before Google Chrome. There is Microsoft blood in the water and Oracle is run by a shark. Microsoft is in trouble in the mobile market and tablets. PCs are starting to look vulnerable as well.
HDMI needs 2.8gbps... Unless you use compression. Use an hardware h.264 or VP8 encoder on one end and a hardware decoder on the other. Sending HD video over wifi isn't hard. If you play an HD video on you notebook that is stored on a NAS over wifi you are basically doing a wireless HDMI. The problem at this point is more of getting a standard in place and then getting the cost down. Of course I am sure that they will come up with a more complex standard involving mandatory 8 million bit encryption so the movie companies will not have a fit.
I mean after all do we really want the head of Sony to have get smaller private island?
You have decided that the video was a war crime. No court has. In fact I have not heard any court in the US or the UN even saying that it was war crime.
Your lack of understanding is just off the charts as far as law and military conduct.
Let me explain to you why this wasn't an illegal order first. 1. The video was requested by the press. Not a court of law or a court order. The request was refused by the Civil government. 2. Manning was not ordered to suppress the video. He took it on himself to release the video.
Frankly none of the solders involved would have been hung a Nuremberg. They probably wouldn't even have gone to court. No military court would convict them.
As to knowing what is going on. Please you are trying to tell me that you didn't know that a journalist was killed in a helicopter action? Or that Civilans had been caught in such actions? Really?
I know this will tick you off but I watched the video. The honest truth is that journalist did look like a potential threat to me. It did look like he was carrying an RPG launcher. BTW that cone at the end of the RPB is the war head. You carry those and put them in the launcher right before you fire. Before you put in the warhead it looks like a long tube. So you have some guys with AK-47 with a guy that looks like his carrying an RPG launcher peaking around building.
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From the Wikipedia.
"Bell was a British subject throughout his early life in Scotland and later in Canada until 1882, when he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. In 1915, he characterized his status as: "I am not one of those hyphenated Americans who claim allegiance to two countries."
Alexander Gram Bell was an American by choice.
1. Comments like this wish that this was filed under politics.
2. Dude he is from Finnland. I doubt that he feels the US is rushing toward socialism.
Other than that welcome to the list of great Americans that includes Albert Einstein and Alexander Gram Bell.
HDCP is required to play HD content at 1080p on a display
AKA Blueray. It's function was to "close" the analog hole. You know so you couldn't just record your 1080P video output.
So yes HDCP is now useless because digital copying of BlueRay disks is now common.
What HDCP does accomplish is that it punishes honest users.
It is impossible for me to play the BlueRay DVD I own on my PC at 1080p because my monitor only has DVI.
But I can download it and play it on my computer from a Torrent.
There now you might understand.
HDCP only use is to punish honest users.
Yes it will need a new socket.
I would say none.
No support for OpenCL which I feel is really stupid.
Maybe Apple can make a translator.
An i7 is a desktop chip.
For a sever you should be using a Xeon or one of AMDs new G34 CPUs. AMD makes an 8 core G34 server GPU that is under $300.
But Sandy Bridge isn't really a server side chip.
virtualization workloads are not really important for this CPU unless you are running a Mac and Parallels.
Cray was formed when Cray left CDC so I wouldn't count that.
Other than that being chopped into pieces and sold off bit by bit kind of is the definition of dead.
But DRM can never really work.
You can not give someone the ability to decode a digital source but not the ability to copy it.
And you must decode it to play it.
DRM only hurts paying customers. Right now I can get a program that will rip Bluerays right of the internet.
http://www.blurayripper.org/#decrypt
What good is HDCP at this point?
What good is the DRM on Bluerays. It will only stop any pirate that is too dumb to google BlueRay ripper.
What harm does it do to a paying customer? It makes it hard for me to rip a DVD I OWN and put it on my personal media player.
It makes it hard to rip a DVD I OWN and put it on my Laptop.
It makes it hard for me to play a DVD I OWN on my Linux box.
My wife is an extremely ethical and honest person. We download a Japanese anime to watch because the US channel carrying it is way behind. Plus we like the subs better than the dubs.
When those episodes come to DVD my wife buys them.
It is fair to pay for what you want and just not take it. It is stupid to punish your paying customers.
Pioneers get killed.
Univac, IMSA, MITS, Digital Research, Visicorp, DEC, Control Data.....
Here is a question for you?
How many hours do they expect you to work?
How much vacation time?
How much sick time?
And if they have been doing this for a while why do people keep working their if it so bad?
Dirty Jobs?
Bahh.
Make them do telephone tech support for a year.
And lets be honest it is Norway. There probably wasn't anything happening.
"Basically, I think the world would be a more friendly place if this damned preacher would just shut up."
No not really.
Let's face it we have been talking about a preacher with 50 folks that is going to burn some paper with words on it.
And we are all up set he is going to do this because.
Some people are going to start killing random people because some backwoods preacher with 50 followers where going to burn some paper with some words on it.
I can see being offended and even angry but to do violence over it?
It honestly seems to me that the preacher is a minor jerk. The Muslims that would do violence are the major problem.
Are we all just willing to violate one persons freedom of speech because of threats and crazy talk by a group of fanatics.
This is really nice but.
Make cable companies divest themselves of networks!
Talk about your conflict of interest.
Yes and no.
Google is great but just too easy to abuse.
Google Montauk Project and you find all sorts of interesting stuff that has every possibility of making you stupid.
If not you at least some people
The problem with search engines is that they are full of unverified data and a large number of people have never been taught the skills that are needed to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Many generations have been taught that if it is in a book then it is true and to them the internet seems like one very large book.
Very few of us seem to know how fact check. What is worse is we also have a group that believes that if a doctor, scientist, or goverment lab says one thing and a guy on a TV talk show says something else to trust the guy on the TV or Blog!
And do not get me started on the Bozo that once told me that I was a "happy villager" because I believed that if aliens didn't want us to know they where flying around they would be smart enough to turn their lights off.
I do not know.
Maybe gifting a home is excluded.
However like most things it isn't all bad or all good.
Seaside provides a very nice community. They have sidewalks and really good town planning.
This probably offsets some of the cost of the HOA.
"Welcome to the future, I get to decide the font and point size of books I read."
People still expect a book to be well laid out. Even if you can adjust the font and point size. T
I suggest you try this.
Get read a few chapters of a book a real book.
Then read the same amount of text with no layout work done.
You will see a real difference even if you will not admit it.
Honestly it usually takes more than a day to do the layout and check proofs.
I guess you didn't read the entire post. .40-.80 on a paperback that retails for $8. Make an investment in your book of the same size as a publisher's advance and you'll get as much or more than you would with a publisher."
"An author will get probably get
Well yea that is why I said.
"The end result should be that the cost per person should come down but it shouldn't become zero. If it becomes zero then production will stop."
So after all your complaining and whining you are saying that I am right.
Already happened.
There is a comunity called Seaside in Florida. It has gotten many awards and is pretty famous.
One of the ways they make money is when you buy a home you agree to only sell the home through Seaside reality.
So they get a cut every time the home is sold forever.
Not really.
People do release books under creative commons.
People will choose to write FOSS including myself.
But even under the FOSS model people want to get paid.
They may bet paid by offering services like adding features to the software or supporting the software.
The other model is the I need it. I needed a feature in a program. I can write code so I added it and contributed the code back.
The final one is the guy that likes to do it as a hobby.
Which is fine also and does happen with authors as well.
But even then their are still huge gaps in the FOSS world.
The big one for me is the lack of a good 3d cad solution.
There isn't a 3d FOSS cad solution as good as SolidWorks or ProE.
Heck there isn't even one as good as TurboCad.
The thing is that no one should be FORCED to release their code under the GPL.
No one should their work without their permission.
If you don't like it do as you are doing and don't use it.
It is as simple as that.
I don't know.
Mark Hurd made a mint for HP.
"Under his leadership, the company has been the first in the sale of desktop computers since 2007, and laptop computers since 2006. In 2008, it also increased its market share in inkjet and laser printers to 46% and 50.5%, respectively."
He is also a blood thirsty shark.
Maybe Sun will branch out into desktops and notebooks.
Actually I see Sun going after HP's server market tooth and nail as well as Dell's.
I keep hearing people talk about artificial scarcity.
What we are actually dealing with is an artificial abundance caused by digital copying.
People keep talking about how the cost to produce a book, movie, TV Show, or song is now practically nothing.
That is a false statement.
The cost to produce those things has been decreased they are still far from zero.
Let's take a book for example.
It may take an author six months too write a book.
It may take an editor three weeks to edit it.
It may take a typesetter/layout artist a day to lay it out and check the proofs.
That is all labor and costs money.
Now the author often gets no pay for his labor. He is making an investment that he will get paid.
The publisher invests his money in the editing laying out of the book for production as well as advertising.
Most books do not make a profit.
The way the system works is that we pay a small amount for book, movie, TV Show, and more Music compared to what it cost to make because the cost of duplication means that the cost can be spread over a large number of people.
Digital copying provided the illusion that the cost to produce these things is zero.
It is not. The cost to duplicate them is very close to zero. That is the problem
The end result should be that the cost per person should come down but it shouldn't become zero. If ti becomes zero then production will stop.
There are two problems.
The current producers want the decreased cost of duplication to mean increased profits for them. They see this as windfall.
Consumers are ignoring the cost of production and only seeing the cost of duplication and want it for free.
The problem really isn't one of economics but one of greed. Actually two problems of greed.
The greed of the media companies that want an even larger profit margin.
and
The greed of consumers that want the media but want it for free.
If we could just solve human greed then we wouldn't have this problem.
The consumers would be willing to pay a fair price and the produces would be happy with a fair profit.
The cost of duplication is practically free but that isn't new.
The printing press reduced the cost of duplicating a book as well.
The entire idea of copyright laws is to provide an incentive to publish and create works that can be duplicated easily.
In many ways it works like venture capital or a start up company.
An author invests their time which could be working or or doing a different activity creating a work. He has no guaranty that he will make any money off the effort. Most authors do not get rich or even make a living from writing books. He then has the promise of law that he can set a price for his work and sell it.
The same applies to the publisher.
We then get to buy the book for a small percentage of the cost of producing the book. AKA the amount of time the author spend writing, the editors spent editing it, and the typesetters spent laying it out.
The reason why we can pay so little is because the actual duplication of the book is cheap. The publisher and the author can sell lots of copies so they spread out the cost over every person.
Yes duplication is cheap and frankly the digital age is just the next step. It probably costs less than $2 to print and bind a paper back. It costs less than $1 to press and record or a CD.
Copyright laws allow authors and publishers to have a hope of recovering their investment and maybe making a profit.
In other words the part you say now is almost free was also pretty cheap before. But the actual cost to produce a book has not gone down. It has in fact gone up. It was all manual labor and pretty much still is.
What you are confusing is the cost of duplication with the cost of creation.
Now the problem IMHO still is that publishers are charging too much for digital copies. A publisher had to invest a lot upfront in printing a book. They ran a good amount of risk and incurred a good amount of cost in printing thousands of books that may not sell, warehousing them, and shipping them to stores.
The Stores used to also need to make a profit off each book sold to keep the lights on and pay the rent. They still do but an estore will be a lot cheaper than a chain of books stores.
All those costs and risks are now gone.
Also their is no reason for any book to now go out of print.
There are no digital print runs.
The same thing goes with movies and video.
For the most part they are now 100% profit after you take out the royalties.
I do not think that I should have to pay $5 for an electronic copy of a book that is years old and 99 cents a song is also pretty high.
I guess that I am surpprised at how much money Oracle has.
I do not think that the FOSS world has much to worry about from Oracle Microsoft does.
Remember Oracles NC netcomputer push back in the 90s.
It was Google Chrome before Google Chrome.
There is Microsoft blood in the water and Oracle is run by a shark.
Microsoft is in trouble in the mobile market and tablets. PCs are starting to look vulnerable as well.
HDMI needs 2.8gbps ... Unless you use compression.
Use an hardware h.264 or VP8 encoder on one end and a hardware decoder on the other.
Sending HD video over wifi isn't hard. If you play an HD video on you notebook that is stored on a NAS over wifi you are basically doing a wireless HDMI.
The problem at this point is more of getting a standard in place and then getting the cost down.
Of course I am sure that they will come up with a more complex standard involving mandatory 8 million bit encryption so the movie companies will not have a fit.
I mean after all do we really want the head of Sony to have get smaller private island?
You have decided that the video was a war crime. No court has.
In fact I have not heard any court in the US or the UN even saying that it was war crime.
Your lack of understanding is just off the charts as far as law and military conduct.
Let me explain to you why this wasn't an illegal order first.
1. The video was requested by the press. Not a court of law or a court order. The request was refused by the Civil government.
2. Manning was not ordered to suppress the video. He took it on himself to release the video.
Frankly none of the solders involved would have been hung a Nuremberg. They probably wouldn't even have gone to court. No military court would convict them.
As to knowing what is going on.
Please you are trying to tell me that you didn't know that a journalist was killed in a helicopter action?
Or that Civilans had been caught in such actions?
Really?
I know this will tick you off but I watched the video.
The honest truth is that journalist did look like a potential threat to me. It did look like he was carrying an RPG launcher. BTW that cone at the end of the RPB is the war head. You carry those and put them in the launcher right before you fire. Before you put in the warhead it looks like a long tube.
So you have some guys with AK-47 with a guy that looks like his carrying an RPG launcher peaking around building.