The thing I don't get is. What about PC's that don't have any content delivery systems in them. Like a standard PC without a DVD drive. Does that fall under this or are we only talking about TV-PC's and stuff?
As for the US and the EU you do realise that is only a portion of the world, and the rest of the world is far more hungry for open source than the first world. Consider Asia, India, The middle east, Russia, South America, Oceana.
The problem with changeing the liscence is that it splits the codebase in two. All the old released code will still be under the old liscence, it is only new code that is under the new. The only way around this is to specifiy in the past liscence that changes in the future retroactivley affect the current liscence.
This means if they did forbid it from running in a emulated virtual machine then all older code like the windows I own could still legaly run, no matter what the liscence is changed to.
This is the same argument used against GPL forks, which have happened. All the old code is still under the old liscence.
"Guns don't kill people, criminals do.". Actually this is not correct either. Guns don't kill people. It's not the bullets either nor is it the shockwave, loss of blood etc. The true fact of the matter is:
The toothfairy kills people by not stopping them from being hit by the bullets. Therefore we should get rid of the toothfairy.
"Actually you do have the right to own a gun.", "Don't even get me started on what has happened to the right to own guns down there." Which of these two statements is wrong? You think that in a argument you could at least be consistent.
I have the right to kick you in the nuts dude. I also have the right to shoot you but your stupid americana govmnt has laws forbidding me to do so. America is such a Fascist state, who would want to live in a country where you are not free to kill and kick anyone in the balls that you want to?
>>Sometimes I wonder why noone (other than Vinge) is writing post-Singlarity science fiction.
There are others out there writing post-singularity sci-fi but you'll look hard to find them. They are almost like post-apocalypse sci-fi except you don't know what happened. I read one example (sorry can't remeber the title or author) where an astronaut returns to Earth to find all of earth empty. He goes on to discover that they dissapeared in some sort of new age transformation but he cannot understand it or something (my memory of the end of the book reflects the singularity, sorry).
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I've heard of the singularity applied in different ways than just AI. What about our current research into nano-tech or bio-tech. There is a point where our own science will be WAY beyond our own control. Take for instance Greg Bears "Moving Mars" If we had technology like that how would we cope? A singularity is not about moving into a higher plane of existance, it is a point we cannot see or see beyond because reality at that point moves in such a radical way that humankind can't conceive. Imagine if it had taken ten years to get from the stoneage to today?
"But the local net at the High Lab had transcended-almost without the humans realizing. The processes that circulated through it's nodes were complex, beyond anything that could live on the computers the humans had brought. Those feeble devices were now simply front ends to the devices the recipes suggested. The processes had the potential for self-awareness . . . and occasionally the need."
Vernor Vinge "A fire upon the deep"
Yeah but the browser can download anything it wants then dump it. So your idea wouldn't work. The real problem is that the web is "stateless" without Java, ActiveX. This makes it even worse than client server and I know that with client server you can just modify the client so the server doesn't know. People have been using these methods to cheat on game servers for ages.
For instance lets say that instead of having the ads seperate from the article the thing is one whole gif jpg png whatever. What is to stop the web browser from chopping the image up anyway so the ad disappears.
For popup ads the server may send a Java (scriplet security?) piece that contains the ad if the Java program stops running then the web server detects this and no content is displayed. But a browser can redirect output to anywhere including hiding popup windows and have the Java program still running. Since they have no control over the client they can do nothing.
Trust me, I am not a MSCE
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I was using one of those ATM's but I wasn't feeling myself that day so the ATM didn't recognize me.
Hasn't the writer of the article ever heard of VR before? Not only that but they assume that the compter 3D revolution started with the Voodoo chipset. Obviously Elite or Battlezone were never heard of and those weren't even the first games with 3D graphics. I just don't get this the 3D revolution started at point X, as X does not exist.
"Someone who does this is obviously interested in illegal activities. So we have to make it illegal to build networks that are not under the supervision of a trusted provider."
Not neccesarily maybe the fact is that the underlying network is owned by a corp that wants to control all bandwidth. Maybe some people are sick and tired of the nooses around there necks that stop them from doing legal net activities without being charged unfair fees.
By the way this is already being done in Australia using wireless nets because of the problems I just described. It is still the Internet but it is no longer controlled by a corporation that's only considerations are it's stock price.
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In the scenario I'm describing, the data on the disk is encrypted. When it leaves the initial reading device, it's still encrypted. So it's not vulnerable.
And where does this data eventually end up or does it continue circulating through your computers locked up paranoid encryption hardware? Most of the data we are talking about is eventually let out, like CD music is transformed into sound waves that your ears detect and then tell your brain hey this music sucks.
Even if the data was encrypted all the way to the speakers, you could put a microphone in front of them and record the music that way. Don't worry about loss as most humans can't even detect it. The Video industry was faced with such a threat, VCR to VCR copying. So they put a disrupting signal on the tape but still enterprising individuals (Pirates) made and sold devices that removed the disruption signal.
There is no way in the world they will ever be able to control the data completely, someone will always find a workaround. What these companies fail to understand is once you let the data out, people can do with it as they please. No matter how much encryption, hardware etc they use to protect it. Publishers and pirates have been fighting a technological battle for years and it will continue to go on. It's the fact that the data has to come out of hiding for the consumers to view or listen to it. If it didn't it would have a chance but since it can't it has no chance.
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It wastes vast amounts of bandwith.
It has had some ISP's disconnect internal port 80 connections. Resulting in some Apache or other webservers no longer being able to work. Yeah and patched IIS ones too.
It gives unix users a new hobby. Reading Code Red hits in their logfiles
It is a new FAD
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Ah but did it boot into Microsoft Basic(C) off the ROM. The first PC's all booted from a ROM or PROM or whatever. The problem with this was when you wanted to change OS you had throw out your ROM's and get new ones thus the reasoning behind booting off of a floppy began. From there we moved up to HD's etc.
As for floppies being redundant I use floppies all the time, Why? because they are the lowest common denominator of booting on PC's and boy will I be glad to see the end of them. But with all the old hardware out there it will take ages. Hint I'm a computer technician I have to fix old beasts when they break.
My brother is just inserting a PC inside a aluminium tool case but I can't work out how to fit my PC inside my Gameboy
And a smart fighter knows never to pick a fight or get in one either. When I was taught Kung-Fu the emphasis was on avoiding the situation but still being prepared for combat.
As for my favorite shows
Farscape If they ever show it again in Australia
SG-SG1 Not too bad
Dark Angel She kicks ass but I've only seen three episodes so far
Strange World Though it was killed off
Crusade Also killed off though I'm more annoyed at this one. Especially as I have seen almost all of babylon five and the movies.
Space Above and Beyond Never saw the whole lot but it was cool.
But frankly I think most Sci-Fi is cool wether it's written, read or on TV or the movies.
Then of course, as chip makers swap higher clockspeeds for slower/portable chips, the cost of attaining reasonable rendering speeds on computers is going to skyrocket.
You won't be able to get the fastest chip in the world at dime stores like you could in 2001. The CG industry is small enough that chip makers can't afford to keep pumping clockcycles into chips that 99% of the world uses in nothing but wristwatches and PDA's.
Wrong
The chip manufacturers have been doing this for years but you still see faster processors coming out all the time. Faster processors are not just needed in CG, think military, cryptology, medical, scientific, games, the latest version of MS office for example.
Chips cost a fortune to design and when they are no longer sold to PC manufacturers they are sold in the embedded market. Intel was selling 486's for years after you could buy a PC with one in it.
True some people manufacture only embedded chips but the market is not going to grow any bigger just because of PDA's. The chips are already there in wristwatches, cars, washing machines, mobile phones, routers, pagers, tvs etc and those markets are growing no faster than the PC market.
You are talking about a revolution that has already happened.
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As for the US and the EU you do realise that is only a portion of the world, and the rest of the world is far more hungry for open source than the first world. Consider Asia, India, The middle east, Russia, South America, Oceana.
This means if they did forbid it from running in a emulated virtual machine then all older code like the windows I own could still legaly run, no matter what the liscence is changed to.
This is the same argument used against GPL forks, which have happened. All the old code is still under the old liscence.
The toothfairy kills people by not stopping them from being hit by the bullets. Therefore we should get rid of the toothfairy.
"Actually you do have the right to own a gun.", "Don't even get me started on what has happened to the right to own guns down there." Which of these two statements is wrong? You think that in a argument you could at least be consistent.
Ah but you forget since America and Australia are ex British penal colonies, then the average honest citizens are criminals.
I have the right to kick you in the nuts dude. I also have the right to shoot you but your stupid americana govmnt has laws forbidding me to do so. America is such a Fascist state, who would want to live in a country where you are not free to kill and kick anyone in the balls that you want to?
LOL pity few people will ever get that joke.
Secret service? You've been talking to the commonwealth drivers again haven't you. Keep out of my private life Senator :)
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>>Sometimes I wonder why noone (other than Vinge) is writing post-Singlarity science fiction.
There are others out there writing post-singularity sci-fi but you'll look hard to find them. They are almost like post-apocalypse sci-fi except you don't know what happened. I read one example (sorry can't remeber the title or author) where an astronaut returns to Earth to find all of earth empty. He goes on to discover that they dissapeared in some sort of new age transformation but he cannot understand it or something (my memory of the end of the book reflects the singularity, sorry).
I've heard of the singularity applied in different ways than just AI. What about our current research into nano-tech or bio-tech. There is a point where our own science will be WAY beyond our own control. Take for instance Greg Bears "Moving Mars" If we had technology like that how would we cope? A singularity is not about moving into a higher plane of existance, it is a point we cannot see or see beyond because reality at that point moves in such a radical way that humankind can't conceive. Imagine if it had taken ten years to get from the stoneage to today?
"But the local net at the High Lab had transcended-almost without the humans realizing. The processes that circulated through it's nodes were complex, beyond anything that could live on the computers the humans had brought. Those feeble devices were now simply front ends to the devices the recipes suggested. The processes had the potential for self-awareness . . . and occasionally the need."
Vernor Vinge "A fire upon the deep"
Actually it did during the sept WTC attacks. Slashdot was virtually unuseable. CNN was better.
For instance lets say that instead of having the ads seperate from the article the thing is one whole gif jpg png whatever. What is to stop the web browser from chopping the image up anyway so the ad disappears.
For popup ads the server may send a Java (scriplet security?) piece that contains the ad if the Java program stops running then the web server detects this and no content is displayed. But a browser can redirect output to anywhere including hiding popup windows and have the Java program still running. Since they have no control over the client they can do nothing.
Trust me, I am not a MSCE
Hasn't the writer of the article ever heard of VR before? Not only that but they assume that the compter 3D revolution started with the Voodoo chipset. Obviously Elite or Battlezone were never heard of and those weren't even the first games with 3D graphics. I just don't get this the 3D revolution started at point X, as X does not exist.
Not neccesarily maybe the fact is that the underlying network is owned by a corp that wants to control all bandwidth. Maybe some people are sick and tired of the nooses around there necks that stop them from doing legal net activities without being charged unfair fees.
By the way this is already being done in Australia using wireless nets because of the problems I just described. It is still the Internet but it is no longer controlled by a corporation that's only considerations are it's stock price.
And where does this data eventually end up or does it continue circulating through your computers locked up paranoid encryption hardware? Most of the data we are talking about is eventually let out, like CD music is transformed into sound waves that your ears detect and then tell your brain hey this music sucks.
Even if the data was encrypted all the way to the speakers, you could put a microphone in front of them and record the music that way. Don't worry about loss as most humans can't even detect it. The Video industry was faced with such a threat, VCR to VCR copying. So they put a disrupting signal on the tape but still enterprising individuals (Pirates) made and sold devices that removed the disruption signal.
There is no way in the world they will ever be able to control the data completely, someone will always find a workaround. What these companies fail to understand is once you let the data out, people can do with it as they please. No matter how much encryption, hardware etc they use to protect it. Publishers and pirates have been fighting a technological battle for years and it will continue to go on. It's the fact that the data has to come out of hiding for the consumers to view or listen to it. If it didn't it would have a chance but since it can't it has no chance.
It has had some ISP's disconnect internal port 80 connections. Resulting in some Apache or other webservers no longer being able to work. Yeah and patched IIS ones too.
It gives unix users a new hobby. Reading Code Red hits in their logfiles
It is a new FAD
As for floppies being redundant I use floppies all the time, Why? because they are the lowest common denominator of booting on PC's and boy will I be glad to see the end of them. But with all the old hardware out there it will take ages. Hint I'm a computer technician I have to fix old beasts when they break.
My brother is just inserting a PC inside a aluminium tool case but I can't work out how to fit my PC inside my Gameboy
Also they missed out starglider, river raid, and not to mention Atari 2600 combat which was the first multiplayer game I ever played.
Have a look out for a game called Armour Alley it's bascically the same I think but with serial play for up to four players.
As for my favorite shows
Farscape If they ever show it again in Australia
SG-SG1 Not too bad
Dark Angel She kicks ass but I've only seen three episodes so far
Strange World Though it was killed off
Crusade Also killed off though I'm more annoyed at this one. Especially as I have seen almost all of babylon five and the movies.
Space Above and Beyond Never saw the whole lot but it was cool.
But frankly I think most Sci-Fi is cool wether it's written, read or on TV or the movies.
She is not a member of starfleet, is unranked and therefore can wear what she likes. For info on this watch the episode Nightingale.
Wrong
The chip manufacturers have been doing this for years but you still see faster processors coming out all the time. Faster processors are not just needed in CG, think military, cryptology, medical, scientific, games, the latest version of MS office for example.
Chips cost a fortune to design and when they are no longer sold to PC manufacturers they are sold in the embedded market. Intel was selling 486's for years after you could buy a PC with one in it.
True some people manufacture only embedded chips but the market is not going to grow any bigger just because of PDA's. The chips are already there in wristwatches, cars, washing machines, mobile phones, routers, pagers, tvs etc and those markets are growing no faster than the PC market. You are talking about a revolution that has already happened.
Who would have sulfnbk that?