I am sick and tired of what I used to think was a reputable geek site, Slashdot, to be front paging pseudo science BS. This is about the 5th BS article in about as many months.
Keep it up a--holes. Time to find someplace else to get the _real_ information. A geek site this is NOT!
Maybe the Bush admin is sticking their fingers into this place. Next we'll see ID claims every other day:(.
Dump people in numbers can believe stupid things and will follow dump leaders.
It tells us that we have not moved forward in progression from the Roman Crusades. We have not moved forward from burning or drowning accused witches. We have not moved forward from what happened to the Germans who allowed the Nazi Party to rule and successfully exterminate 6,000,000 people under their noses and in their own backyard. It tells us any of these awfull scary things could happen, TODAY.
Is there anything else more scary than a large mis-guided and dump population? If you want to be _real_ scared read Carl Sagan's book - Demon Haunted World. Some of the most scary stuff I ever read.
In fact, hardware has the capability to ignore DRM,
Wrong.
This specific technology prevents this. It is not possible to use a non-HDCP compatible Firewire interface on, for example an HDTV, with an HDCP only Firewire output. The source device will refuse to send the data if the display does not support the protocol that the DRM technology is implemented with (HDPC).
These results provide strong evidence that human activity since the industrial revolution, rather than just natural processes, has strongly altered the world's climate
Well, ignoring the creationists (which is scientifically reasonable), man is a product of nature and the materials we use to live our lives with are natural materials since they all come from nature itself. The concept of "man-made" not being "natural" is an inane concept and inflammatory.
I believe in managing nature and it probably makes sense to not cut down every tree in existance. Nonetheless to say the processes man employs to improve life is not natural is just plain stupid. It may be in our destiny to become extinct after we take a few thousand other species with us. So be it. It was the Dinosaur's destiny to become extinct too (much to our benefit since "man" would probably have never come into existance without the demise of the Dinosaur).
I just wish the hyperbolic inflammatory tree huggers would get a grip on reality. Hell, if a 2 million ton asteroid hit the earth and caused the next ice age what would the whining tree huggers have to bitch about then? Probably not global warming (if they survive the hit, that is).
Just because you have one possible explanation does not mean you should focus on that one until it becomes proven fact
Ridiculous. Facts are not irreversable. Facts are deemed facts based on the lack of emperical evidence to the contrary. Evolution almost certainly passes this test (up to this point). There is no "focus." That is stupid thing to say. There is only the proper analysis of the evidence. You don't understand this process, obviously. Probably why you believe in "magical" things like "god nudging evolution".
I was using a generic definition of theory, rather than a scientific, which changes matters considerably.
No you weren't. You were interchanging the two semantic meanings haphazardly. Which is one of the key "tricks" religious poeple like to do. Religious people think eveything is negotiable. People of science know better. It all shows how religious people are just stupid. To see a fence rider like you try to manipulate this subject like that on slashdot here makes you no better than the ID people. Ugh.
evolution has deep scientific background, despite not being a proven fact.
Well, given the context of your statement there is no such thing as a "proven fact." Because given the mountain of evidence and the variety of disconnected scientific disciplines (species classification, fossil record, DNA) which cannot be explained through any other theory other than evolution eveloution is as much a scientific fact as any other scientific theory.
Intelligent Design/Creationism does have a few specs here and there that support it
God created stuff, and evolution happened, with God nudging it here and there
Give me a break. You are a dyslexic creationist. Deep down inside you are a simple populist. I am disgusted. You are no better than the ID people, IMO. Care to divulge the process involved in god's "nudging's"? Or is it one of those "magic" things god can do but no one gets to see it, prove it, etc. etc. etc. Ughhh.
The statement "God exists" is not supported by any scientific facts, but neither is "God doesn't exist" a falsifiable scientific truth.
Overall it doesn't matter. The base position of "god exists" is a statement of theory that must be shown to be valid through emperical evidence. No evidence exists. Therefore the counter "god doesn't exist" is an assumable fact in absence of emperical evidence. On a scientific and logical basis the concept of "god" is ludicrous and no different than believing in the FSM.
It always cracks me up when religious "folk" try to use "science" as method of justifying their faith. They lose every time. Though I am an atheist, the "god believers' I respect the most are the ones who openly acknowlege that they have made a consious decision to take the leap of "faith" to believe. When they openly admit there is no proof and yet they decide to believe. At least they are honest about their self-delusion and decide that regardless it is good for them. I cannot argue that. I don't agree but I respect that they are at least that much honest with themselves.
What irks me are the "believers" who feel they need to "prove" their faith. They have decided either by Pascals Wager or quite simply the fear of Hell to believe. Such crazy mental behavior of course runs down the long slippery slope to cults, religious fanaticism, the modern neo-conservative republican fascist movement, and wars based on lies. It really is very dangerous to have a large populous of self-deluded god-fearing lemmings.
The theory of evolution remains simply that, a theory
As well as the theory of gravity. I recommend you visit me at the top of the Sears Tower so I can demonstrate a dispute about the theory of gravity by throwing you off the top. If you do not smack into the ground and simply float away than I'll believe your points on evolution and ID. On the other hand if you die, well maybe you should have educated yourself enough to understand the word THEORY.
Really. Especially if for X reason you are decided to be a terrorist and get shipped off to Gitmo.
No notice to family. No procedures. They just come in grab you and send you off. No phone call to a lawyer. No reasons. Just get hauled off into the gulag for no reason (except to the FBI's whims - say you have a contrarian political view and are deemed a _political_ threat).
The long slope into a blatent facist state we have embarked on.
HD-DVD and Blu-Ray will both die horrible deaths (if they are not already still born) because of DRM.
Everyone loving their shiny new HD-DVD drive in their system will sh1t themsleves when they discover that the PC has to call M$ everytime you want to play a movie on your PC.
It will be even funnier when some M$ lousy bug ridden server thinks your latest HD-DVD movie you just bought for $35 is pirated and decides to erase the firmware off your HD-DVD drive (thus permanently disabling it) because you have been labeled a pirate.
Yeah, it really makes a difference which format wins:-/
The web is an infrastructure that lets our individual machines communicate with one another
Uhhhhhhh, no.
The web as in the word "web" is a contraction of the "WWW" or "World Wide Web" is a system of servers and clients. http Servers and web browser Clients.
Now if you want to talk about "an infrastructure that lets our individual machines communicate with one another" then you must be talking about the Internet.
The web and Internet are two very different things. Judging by your post you must have meant "Internet."
Since your such a tough guy. Come on over and tell me what you think to my face. You fucking coward. Mr tough guy righty:). Bahahahaha. You red-neck drunken pussy! You couldn't beat up your little sister.
If a person buys/rents a DVD and it works, they won't consider the technology crippled
Very True. But the natural progression of marketing this form of technology goes something like this:
1. Format established and publicized.
2. Manufacturers sign on to build the players and begin production. First players released are marketed but they are expensive.
3. Content providers slowly dribble in source content.
4. Ecstatic early adopters embrace the new wiz-bang nerd-porn technology. Willingly forking over their hard earned ca$h for the expensive technology to show off to all the other nerd-porn loving early adopters.
5. The word slowly spreads about how truly wonderful this new technology is and receives widespread adoption as the technology gets cheap enough for Joe 6-pack.
So what's wrong with this picture? No early adopters - no game. Miss that step and the technology is dead.
Why would early adopters reject this technology?
1. DRM - the subject of this article.
2. Pay for play.
3. HDTV obsolescence.
4. Pissed off about getting burned (again).
Keep in mind that this DRM is there to slip in a pay-for-play strategy long term. Taking control of the box with this specific DRM will allow this strategy to work. The industry (**AA) has come right out and stated this is their goal. They are trying to learn from their mistake with divx and time-lapse degradable DVD's.
But DRM is not the whole story, either. What else other than DRM do we need to kill this technology? The "analog hole." Every HDTV sold before digital interfaces (DVI-HDCP, HDMI-HDCP, broadcast flag, etc.) were invented are dead as well with this technology (both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray will down-rez "analog" component connections to "DVD" quality). These HDTV's are equipped only with component (and some rare cases RGBHV) analog HD inputs.
Guess who the majority of the population that owns those early dinosaur HDTV's are? Early Adopters. This pisses them off and they will state it very loudly with their wallets. BUt they don't even have to be pissed off. Since they can't watch HDTV they simply can't make use of the technology without spending another $3000 (in addition to the $6000 they already spent 5 years ago) for a new HDTV.
Lets face it. This technology (for HDTV only - I'm sure computing/PS3/etc. will make good use of it) is stillborn. No early adopters will accept it as it is. But don't take my word for it. Go to http://www.avsforum.com/ and see what the early adopters are saying themselves.
P.S. there is another great technological failure that draws a lot of parallels here: DAT.
High definition is not good enough increment in technological value to supplant present day DVD's with a crippled DRM technology.
HD-DVD will be stillborn.
People will take convenience and the facade of ownership over crippled technology any day. Just look at divx (not the Mpeg 4 technology - the rediculous pay for play disks that were stillborn).
I've been using this SW for years. Put it on a laptop with Firewire. Connect your DV cam to the laptop via Firewire. Hit Capture.
It will record until the Hard Drive is full. It can automatically splice the capture into multiple files to handle any file size limitations (good for file management. Who wants one giant file? Too difficult to manage for edits afterwards).
It is also good for intelligent captures off of tapes in which you might have done on the fly editing. It has some neat effects (time lapse capture can be fun) as well.
Finally, it is pretty cost friendly ($39). And I would recommend you run the trial version to see if you like it first.
She points out that open-source is "programmers writing for programmers." Well, duh. Who else cares?
Well, Duh, that is the point of the article and it is dead on. Programs written for programmers exclude the masses. Fits the title of the article perfectly.
Again, autotuning will never be a standard feature.
Maybe. But the visions I see with this technology follows.
Forget the "please tune the guitar for me because I am not capable" scenario. Those afflicted with this condition will never buy this kind of technology. That is what the $5.99 Korg meter tuner is for.
This will hit the guitar playing professional demographic like the electric pickup and Marshall stack did. I mean come on. Look at the artistic possibilitis with this technology. It by itself seems like just a guitar tuner. . . but what it is . . . is an enabler of artistic expression. Especially for live performances.
Changing tunings in the middle of a song is amazing to me. The ability to control tonality and "sound" itself will revolutionize the guitar. In the hands of a true creative mind, I cannot fathom the magical and interesting music we may yet be able to hear.
Next on the list is maybe a Piano? Or a Harp? Any stringed instrument could benefit from this.
One thing is certain, others will follow. The possibilities for sin-offs of this concept seem unlimited to me. There may be cheaper implementations, whatever. But the price should definitely come down as the popularity grows.
Well I play bass and the best lesson I ever learned was to tune my Bass without any reference tone at all (think the tone in your head, then tune to it. To master this skill you constantly check it later to see how close you were). Practicing this exercise over and over forces you to learn the "notes" and not the positions.
Now when I hear pop songs I can determine every bass note played without having to have a bass in my hands. I can then go and play the song (not perfectly, practice is _always_ necessary) reasonably close. I cna listen to other musicians play and jump in with the my Bass without having to hunt around for the positions to match the notes I "hear" in my head. It makes me a better bass player overall.
If you let your students get away with tuning with digital tuners you are doing them no good. You should take the bass out of their hands, manually de-tune it and force them to tune it by ear before every lesson you give. See how dependant they are on the digital tuner after 5 lessons.
In the long run you will make them better bass players for it.
The purpose of a corporation is to make money for its investors
I agree.
It is also the governments responsibility to look out for society's best interest and to regulate industry in order to meet that end. In a free society the people's interest supercedes the corporation's interest.
There is a term for a society where corporate interest's supercedes the people's. It's called fascism.
It makes you wonder what kind of society we live in.
Slashdot Mirror
Old news.
HD DVD is stillborn.
I am sick and tired of what I used to think was a reputable geek site, Slashdot, to be front paging pseudo science BS. This is about the 5th BS article in about as many months.
:(.
Keep it up a--holes. Time to find someplace else to get the _real_ information. A geek site this is NOT!
Maybe the Bush admin is sticking their fingers into this place. Next we'll see ID claims every other day
It represents a fundemental and very scary thing.
Dump people in numbers can believe stupid things and will follow dump leaders.
It tells us that we have not moved forward in progression from the Roman Crusades. We have not moved forward from burning or drowning accused witches. We have not moved forward from what happened to the Germans who allowed the Nazi Party to rule and successfully exterminate 6,000,000 people under their noses and in their own backyard. It tells us any of these awfull scary things could happen, TODAY.
Is there anything else more scary than a large mis-guided and dump population? If you want to be _real_ scared read Carl Sagan's book - Demon Haunted World. Some of the most scary stuff I ever read.
In fact, hardware has the capability to ignore DRM,
Wrong.
This specific technology prevents this. It is not possible to use a non-HDCP compatible Firewire interface on, for example an HDTV, with an HDCP only Firewire output. The source device will refuse to send the data if the display does not support the protocol that the DRM technology is implemented with (HDPC).
These results provide strong evidence that human activity since the industrial revolution, rather than just natural processes, has strongly altered the world's climate
Well, ignoring the creationists (which is scientifically reasonable), man is a product of nature and the materials we use to live our lives with are natural materials since they all come from nature itself. The concept of "man-made" not being "natural" is an inane concept and inflammatory.
I believe in managing nature and it probably makes sense to not cut down every tree in existance. Nonetheless to say the processes man employs to improve life is not natural is just plain stupid. It may be in our destiny to become extinct after we take a few thousand other species with us. So be it. It was the Dinosaur's destiny to become extinct too (much to our benefit since "man" would probably have never come into existance without the demise of the Dinosaur).
I just wish the hyperbolic inflammatory tree huggers would get a grip on reality. Hell, if a 2 million ton asteroid hit the earth and caused the next ice age what would the whining tree huggers have to bitch about then? Probably not global warming (if they survive the hit, that is).
Just because you have one possible explanation does not mean you should focus on that one until it becomes proven fact
Ridiculous. Facts are not irreversable. Facts are deemed facts based on the lack of emperical evidence to the contrary. Evolution almost certainly passes this test (up to this point). There is no "focus." That is stupid thing to say. There is only the proper analysis of the evidence. You don't understand this process, obviously. Probably why you believe in "magical" things like "god nudging evolution".
I was using a generic definition of theory, rather than a scientific, which changes matters considerably.
No you weren't. You were interchanging the two semantic meanings haphazardly. Which is one of the key "tricks" religious poeple like to do. Religious people think eveything is negotiable. People of science know better. It all shows how religious people are just stupid. To see a fence rider like you try to manipulate this subject like that on slashdot here makes you no better than the ID people. Ugh.
evolution has deep scientific background, despite not being a proven fact.
Well, given the context of your statement there is no such thing as a "proven fact." Because given the mountain of evidence and the variety of disconnected scientific disciplines (species classification, fossil record, DNA) which cannot be explained through any other theory other than evolution eveloution is as much a scientific fact as any other scientific theory.
Intelligent Design/Creationism does have a few specs here and there that support it
God created stuff, and evolution happened, with God nudging it here and there
Give me a break. You are a dyslexic creationist. Deep down inside you are a simple populist. I am disgusted. You are no better than the ID people, IMO. Care to divulge the process involved in god's "nudging's"? Or is it one of those "magic" things god can do but no one gets to see it, prove it, etc. etc. etc. Ughhh.
The statement "God exists" is not supported by any scientific facts, but neither is "God doesn't exist" a falsifiable scientific truth.
Overall it doesn't matter. The base position of "god exists" is a statement of theory that must be shown to be valid through emperical evidence. No evidence exists. Therefore the counter "god doesn't exist" is an assumable fact in absence of emperical evidence. On a scientific and logical basis the concept of "god" is ludicrous and no different than believing in the FSM.
It always cracks me up when religious "folk" try to use "science" as method of justifying their faith. They lose every time. Though I am an atheist, the "god believers' I respect the most are the ones who openly acknowlege that they have made a consious decision to take the leap of "faith" to believe. When they openly admit there is no proof and yet they decide to believe. At least they are honest about their self-delusion and decide that regardless it is good for them. I cannot argue that. I don't agree but I respect that they are at least that much honest with themselves.
What irks me are the "believers" who feel they need to "prove" their faith. They have decided either by Pascals Wager or quite simply the fear of Hell to believe. Such crazy mental behavior of course runs down the long slippery slope to cults, religious fanaticism, the modern neo-conservative republican fascist movement, and wars based on lies. It really is very dangerous to have a large populous of self-deluded god-fearing lemmings.
The theory of evolution remains simply that, a theory
As well as the theory of gravity. I recommend you visit me at the top of the Sears Tower so I can demonstrate a dispute about the theory of gravity by throwing you off the top. If you do not smack into the ground and simply float away than I'll believe your points on evolution and ID. On the other hand if you die, well maybe you should have educated yourself enough to understand the word THEORY.
Really. Especially if for X reason you are decided to be a terrorist and get shipped off to Gitmo.
No notice to family. No procedures. They just come in grab you and send you off. No phone call to a lawyer. No reasons. Just get hauled off into the gulag for no reason (except to the FBI's whims - say you have a contrarian political view and are deemed a _political_ threat).
The long slope into a blatent facist state we have embarked on.
HD-DVD and Blu-Ray will both die horrible deaths (if they are not already still born) because of DRM.
:-/
Everyone loving their shiny new HD-DVD drive in their system will sh1t themsleves when they discover that the PC has to call M$ everytime you want to play a movie on your PC.
It will be even funnier when some M$ lousy bug ridden server thinks your latest HD-DVD movie you just bought for $35 is pirated and decides to erase the firmware off your HD-DVD drive (thus permanently disabling it) because you have been labeled a pirate.
Yeah, it really makes a difference which format wins
The web is an infrastructure that lets our individual machines communicate with one another
Uhhhhhhh, no.
The web as in the word "web" is a contraction of the "WWW" or "World Wide Web" is a system of servers and clients. http Servers and web browser Clients.
Now if you want to talk about "an infrastructure that lets our individual machines communicate with one another" then you must be talking about the Internet.
The web and Internet are two very different things. Judging by your post you must have meant "Internet."
The HD-DVD subject has been over-covered here at slashdot.
Both formats are stillborn.
Between DRM and competing formats, who is going to notice?
So coward. You comin' over or not? Gonna take care of me and piss on my grave?
That's right mr tough guy, go back to your still and shut the f up.
Since your such a tough guy. Come on over and tell me what you think to my face. You fucking coward. Mr tough guy righty :). Bahahahaha. You red-neck drunken pussy! You couldn't beat up your little sister.
Slack-Jawed Idiot Troll
I used to think there is a village in Texas missing their idiot.
It is now apparent there are two.
LOL.
Thanks.
If a person buys/rents a DVD and it works, they won't consider the technology crippled
Very True. But the natural progression of marketing this form of technology goes something like this:
1. Format established and publicized.
2. Manufacturers sign on to build the players and begin production. First players released are marketed but they are expensive.
3. Content providers slowly dribble in source content.
4. Ecstatic early adopters embrace the new wiz-bang nerd-porn technology. Willingly forking over their hard earned ca$h for the expensive technology to show off to all the other nerd-porn loving early adopters.
5. The word slowly spreads about how truly wonderful this new technology is and receives widespread adoption as the technology gets cheap enough for Joe 6-pack.
So what's wrong with this picture? No early adopters - no game. Miss that step and the technology is dead.
Why would early adopters reject this technology?
1. DRM - the subject of this article. 2. Pay for play. 3. HDTV obsolescence. 4. Pissed off about getting burned (again).
Keep in mind that this DRM is there to slip in a pay-for-play strategy long term. Taking control of the box with this specific DRM will allow this strategy to work. The industry (**AA) has come right out and stated this is their goal. They are trying to learn from their mistake with divx and time-lapse degradable DVD's.
But DRM is not the whole story, either. What else other than DRM do we need to kill this technology? The "analog hole." Every HDTV sold before digital interfaces (DVI-HDCP, HDMI-HDCP, broadcast flag, etc.) were invented are dead as well with this technology (both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray will down-rez "analog" component connections to "DVD" quality). These HDTV's are equipped only with component (and some rare cases RGBHV) analog HD inputs.
Guess who the majority of the population that owns those early dinosaur HDTV's are? Early Adopters. This pisses them off and they will state it very loudly with their wallets. BUt they don't even have to be pissed off. Since they can't watch HDTV they simply can't make use of the technology without spending another $3000 (in addition to the $6000 they already spent 5 years ago) for a new HDTV.
Lets face it. This technology (for HDTV only - I'm sure computing/PS3/etc. will make good use of it) is stillborn. No early adopters will accept it as it is. But don't take my word for it. Go to http://www.avsforum.com/ and see what the early adopters are saying themselves.
P.S. there is another great technological failure that draws a lot of parallels here: DAT.
High definition is not good enough increment in technological value to supplant present day DVD's with a crippled DRM technology.
HD-DVD will be stillborn.
People will take convenience and the facade of ownership over crippled technology any day. Just look at divx (not the Mpeg 4 technology - the rediculous pay for play disks that were stillborn).
Then it follows the second rule is: you do not talk about the global identity system.
http://www.scenalyzer.com/
I've been using this SW for years. Put it on a laptop with Firewire. Connect your DV cam to the laptop via Firewire. Hit Capture.
It will record until the Hard Drive is full. It can automatically splice the capture into multiple files to handle any file size limitations (good for file management. Who wants one giant file? Too difficult to manage for edits afterwards).
It is also good for intelligent captures off of tapes in which you might have done on the fly editing. It has some neat effects (time lapse capture can be fun) as well.
Finally, it is pretty cost friendly ($39). And I would recommend you run the trial version to see if you like it first.
Pretty easy. What else could you want?
She points out that open-source is "programmers writing for programmers." Well, duh. Who else cares?
Well, Duh, that is the point of the article and it is dead on. Programs written for programmers exclude the masses. Fits the title of the article perfectly.
'nough said. Move along now.
Again, autotuning will never be a standard feature.
Maybe. But the visions I see with this technology follows.
Forget the "please tune the guitar for me because I am not capable" scenario. Those afflicted with this condition will never buy this kind of technology. That is what the $5.99 Korg meter tuner is for.
This will hit the guitar playing professional demographic like the electric pickup and Marshall stack did. I mean come on. Look at the artistic possibilitis with this technology. It by itself seems like just a guitar tuner. . . but what it is . . . is an enabler of artistic expression. Especially for live performances.
Changing tunings in the middle of a song is amazing to me. The ability to control tonality and "sound" itself will revolutionize the guitar. In the hands of a true creative mind, I cannot fathom the magical and interesting music we may yet be able to hear.
Next on the list is maybe a Piano? Or a Harp? Any stringed instrument could benefit from this.
One thing is certain, others will follow. The possibilities for sin-offs of this concept seem unlimited to me. There may be cheaper implementations, whatever. But the price should definitely come down as the popularity grows.
I think this is definitely exciting.
Well I play bass and the best lesson I ever learned was to tune my Bass without any reference tone at all (think the tone in your head, then tune to it. To master this skill you constantly check it later to see how close you were). Practicing this exercise over and over forces you to learn the "notes" and not the positions.
Now when I hear pop songs I can determine every bass note played without having to have a bass in my hands. I can then go and play the song (not perfectly, practice is _always_ necessary) reasonably close. I cna listen to other musicians play and jump in with the my Bass without having to hunt around for the positions to match the notes I "hear" in my head. It makes me a better bass player overall.
If you let your students get away with tuning with digital tuners you are doing them no good. You should take the bass out of their hands, manually de-tune it and force them to tune it by ear before every lesson you give. See how dependant they are on the digital tuner after 5 lessons.
In the long run you will make them better bass players for it.
The purpose of a corporation is to make money for its investors
I agree.
It is also the governments responsibility to look out for society's best interest and to regulate industry in order to meet that end. In a free society the people's interest supercedes the corporation's interest.
There is a term for a society where corporate interest's supercedes the people's. It's called fascism.
It makes you wonder what kind of society we live in.