A large amount of art has already not been produced simply because it would be illegal to distribute. The simplest / most obvious example I can think of would be music remixes, but this spreads to other areas?
Would "West Side Story" ever have been written if "Romeo and Juliet" was still under copyright and was being protected by lawers as rabid as those being employed by the Music / Movie industry?
Given servers on the same opteron hardware performing the same tasks, Solaris and Linux are effectively identical in my experience.
Now, if you're comparing a low end Linux box to a high end Solaris box there will be differeces... but there are low end Solaris boxes and high end Linux boxes.
I can only imagine what it is like in a less well funded or less progressive country.
Better. In other countries it's better. There's less general incompetence, and (in the few countries poorer than the USA) more realization that any crime where all the evidence is on a computer can't be that important.
I'd be perfectly happy to provide full source to any remixes that I make if the record companies would be willing to provide the source to begin with...
This sort of technology is clearly nessisary, because someone who's had three weeks with the book already and can check it out from the library again for free whenever they want obviously needs to be inconvienced by having the copy they have stop working.
You know, there's this really neat 3d development tool called OpenGL. It lets you write 3D programs that will work on pretty much any computer system... even Windows Vista.
The development tools for OpenGL are so good that millions of copies of thounds of games have been sold based on it.
OpenGL actually exits. Now. Not only that - it's mature and proven. If you start developing an applicaton using it now, you'll be able to release before Windows Vista even comes out - and people will be able to use it. When's the soonest you'd expect to have a Avalon app that 50% of computer users can run?
Let's take installing a new Nvidia graphics card as an example. 3d support is not enabled for these cards out of the box on eithor Windows XP nor most Linux distros.
After putting in the card on Windows:
Boot up the system.
Wait while XP tries to figure out what to do with the new unrecognised hardware.
Once it figures out it's a graphics card, tell it you have drivers for the hardware.
Put in the CD.
Wait while it searches the CD for the drivers.
Verify that it found the right drivers.
Wait while the installation wizard opens.
Click next a couple times.
Wait while it copies files.
Click yes on the "Do you want to reboot" message box.
Wait for it to reboot.
Now you can finally run the game you wanted to run... start the game.
Get annoyed when the game complains it wants newer drivers.
Go to Nvidia's website.
...
After putting in the card on Ubuntu Linux:
Boot up the system.
Open the package tool.
Type in your password.
Search for "Nvidia".
With the mouse, mark all 5 packages for installation.
Press the Apply button.
Wait while it downloads and installs the packages.
Restart X (or Reboot. Whatever.)
Done.
Now, I'll let how "intuitive" these processes are speak for themselves - most of intuitive is really "What am I used to doing" anyway. On the other hand in the Windows case there were five separate cases where there would be a reasonable length wait followed by required user input. In the Linux process, this happens only twice.
If the comptuer wants to ask me questions, fine. If the computer wants to process stuff, fine. If the computer wants to process stuff but force me to pay attention to it so I can click next every 3 minutes - that's really annoying.
Because the only thing that humans need to do is whore themselves out to their employer for their next meal and to make their next car payment on their SUV. And anyone who thinks life has more meaning than that... supports eugenics? WTF?!?
Let's imagine for a second that I owned 3 CDs, ripped MP3s off of them, burned that to an MP3 CD and left it in my car. Then, let's imagine that I sold one of the origional CDs to a used music store.
You claim that the sum total of those actions is illegal, yes? Which action would be breaking what law?
It really depends on the specifics of the program. If the inital design wasn't heavily performance bound (and therefore was written for correctness), a unix program should be portable to pretty much any archetecture / unix OS.
It's true that a major change would require a new testing cycle, but it's definately possible shouldn't be *too* hard. If a program is so embedded that this isn't true, the fact that it's a unix app becomes irrelevent.
The only thing preventing mass distribution of HD content over the internet right now is bandwidth and data storage limitations - along with the fact that many shows actually aren't available in HD yet.
When the new Doctor Who series was broadcast in HDTV format it was available full quality on thepiratebay. The episodes were released, and with their same-length commentary the releases (dvd images) weighed in at about 2 gigs each.
Now, although that was full resolution, the intial broadcast was compressed a bit highly. I expect that "standard" HDTV shows will weigh in at 1.5 to 2 gigs each. People with crappy connections will still be able to get low quality rips, but the full quality content will be available.
Just as he's physically ill-equipped to deal with alcohol at that age, he's also mentally ill-equipped to deal with games like GTA or films like The Ring.
I'm sure there's some evidence that children drinking a significant amount is actively bad for them. On the other hand, a glass of wine or beer with dinner once a week is probably more than fine so a law against parent's letting their kid drink is going a bit far.
With violent / sexually explicit media content, I have no reason to believe that there's an actual damage risk. Do you have any reference to back your claim?
(( This post is talking about the USA. If you were talking about something else, my bad. ))
You do realize that it's legal for kids to play GTA, right?
An "M" rating is a recomendation, like any other rating system in use for media in the USA. Even porn isn't illegal for kids to watch because of the rating - if it's illegal that's because of a "showing indecent material to a minor" law that doesn't key off a "rating" at all.
It's even legal for a movie theater to let kids into R rated movies. Theaters have a pretty consistant policy against this, but there's no law.
Note that this is a good thing - I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to live in a country where how parents should raise their children was completely specified by law.
Our entire society is built on the threat of violence.
The power of government is based in having a monopoly on violence. If you don't follow the rules, we have governmental agencies that exist to kidnap you and lock you away. If you don't play along, you'll be shot.
There is a big difference between "Terms of Service" and a contract. When I set up my home telephone service, I signed no contract. When I set up a business phone service and electrical service, I signed contracts with a pen and mailed them to the respective service providers.
Contracts are very powerful. There should be *no chance* of entering into any sort of contract by mistake.
Right, but that doesn't change the fact that blind people do use the internet, and that sighted people sometimes use non-graphical interfaces or graphical interfaces without keyboards.
You do understand the basic concept of science, right?
1.) You observe what you're trying to describe.
2.) You come up with a theory that explains your observations.
3.) When the theory from step 2 is no longer good enough to make the predictions you want, go back to step 1.
Now, the "physical laws" have been doing pretty well at making predicitons for a while, but they aren't really "laws". They don't explain everything, and scientists continue to develop better and better models to explain things.
This all has very little to do with Moore's law. I doubt anyone is seriously using it to make accurate predictions about transistor size per time.
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A large amount of art has already not been produced simply because it would be illegal to distribute. The simplest / most obvious example I can think of would be music remixes, but this spreads to other areas?
Would "West Side Story" ever have been written if "Romeo and Juliet" was still under copyright and was being protected by lawers as rabid as those being employed by the Music / Movie industry?
Given servers on the same opteron hardware performing the same tasks, Solaris and Linux are effectively identical in my experience.
Now, if you're comparing a low end Linux box to a high end Solaris box there will be differeces... but there are low end Solaris boxes and high end Linux boxes.
Why, exactly, shouldn't researchers be allowed to conduct experiments on human volunteers?
Better. In other countries it's better. There's less general incompetence, and (in the few countries poorer than the USA) more realization that any crime where all the evidence is on a computer can't be that important.
So... hire a computer contractor when this sort of thing comes up and team him up with one of the semi-trained-in-computers police investigators.
I'd be perfectly happy to provide full source to any remixes that I make if the record companies would be willing to provide the source to begin with...
This sort of technology is clearly nessisary, because someone who's had three weeks with the book already and can check it out from the library again for free whenever they want obviously needs to be inconvienced by having the copy they have stop working.
What law would that break? I don't think it breaks copyright law, as copyright law covers copying, and playing an existing CD isn't copying.
Your argument was that installing Linux drivers (in the rare event of a hardware device not supported out of the box) was complex and arcane.
I replied that not only is that not true in one of the more common cases (my example), but the Windows solution is really obnoxious in comparison.
Crap. Now I've replied to you twice. Apparently you and Windows are conspiring to waste my precious time.
You know, there's this really neat 3d development tool called OpenGL. It lets you write 3D programs that will work on pretty much any computer system... even Windows Vista.
The development tools for OpenGL are so good that millions of copies of thounds of games have been sold based on it.
OpenGL actually exits. Now. Not only that - it's mature and proven. If you start developing an applicaton using it now, you'll be able to release before Windows Vista even comes out - and people will be able to use it. When's the soonest you'd expect to have a Avalon app that 50% of computer users can run?
Let's take installing a new Nvidia graphics card as an example. 3d support is not enabled for these cards out of the box on eithor Windows XP nor most Linux distros.
After putting in the card on Windows:
After putting in the card on Ubuntu Linux:
Now, I'll let how "intuitive" these processes are speak for themselves - most of intuitive is really "What am I used to doing" anyway. On the other hand in the Windows case there were five separate cases where there would be a reasonable length wait followed by required user input. In the Linux process, this happens only twice.
If the comptuer wants to ask me questions, fine. If the computer wants to process stuff, fine. If the computer wants to process stuff but force me to pay attention to it so I can click next every 3 minutes - that's really annoying.
Because the only thing that humans need to do is whore themselves out to their employer for their next meal and to make their next car payment on their SUV. And anyone who thinks life has more meaning than that... supports eugenics? WTF?!?
Population of the USA: 295,734,134
Population of Europe: 729,966,641
Population of Japan: 127,417,244
Population of South Korea: 48,422,644
Canda: 32,805,041, Australia: 20,090,437
... And there's other countries too. There's no way that the USA has the majority of computer users.
Let's imagine for a second that I owned 3 CDs, ripped MP3s off of them, burned that to an MP3 CD and left it in my car. Then, let's imagine that I sold one of the origional CDs to a used music store.
You claim that the sum total of those actions is illegal, yes? Which action would be breaking what law?
It really depends on the specifics of the program. If the inital design wasn't heavily performance bound (and therefore was written for correctness), a unix program should be portable to pretty much any archetecture / unix OS.
It's true that a major change would require a new testing cycle, but it's definately possible shouldn't be *too* hard. If a program is so embedded that this isn't true, the fact that it's a unix app becomes irrelevent.
Right, but buying new computer equipment periodically is already in the budget in companies that rely on computers.
The only thing preventing mass distribution of HD content over the internet right now is bandwidth and data storage limitations - along with the fact that many shows actually aren't available in HD yet.
When the new Doctor Who series was broadcast in HDTV format it was available full quality on thepiratebay. The episodes were released, and with their same-length commentary the releases (dvd images) weighed in at about 2 gigs each.
Now, although that was full resolution, the intial broadcast was compressed a bit highly. I expect that "standard" HDTV shows will weigh in at 1.5 to 2 gigs each. People with crappy connections will still be able to get low quality rips, but the full quality content will be available.
I'm sure there's some evidence that children drinking a significant amount is actively bad for them. On the other hand, a glass of wine or beer with dinner once a week is probably more than fine so a law against parent's letting their kid drink is going a bit far.
With violent / sexually explicit media content, I have no reason to believe that there's an actual damage risk. Do you have any reference to back your claim?
(( This post is talking about the USA. If you were talking about something else, my bad. ))
You do realize that it's legal for kids to play GTA, right?
An "M" rating is a recomendation, like any other rating system in use for media in the USA. Even porn isn't illegal for kids to watch because of the rating - if it's illegal that's because of a "showing indecent material to a minor" law that doesn't key off a "rating" at all.
It's even legal for a movie theater to let kids into R rated movies. Theaters have a pretty consistant policy against this, but there's no law.
Note that this is a good thing - I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to live in a country where how parents should raise their children was completely specified by law.
Our entire society is built on the threat of violence.
The power of government is based in having a monopoly on violence. If you don't follow the rules, we have governmental agencies that exist to kidnap you and lock you away. If you don't play along, you'll be shot.
There is a big difference between "Terms of Service" and a contract. When I set up my home telephone service, I signed no contract. When I set up a business phone service and electrical service, I signed contracts with a pen and mailed them to the respective service providers.
Contracts are very powerful. There should be *no chance* of entering into any sort of contract by mistake.
Right, but that doesn't change the fact that blind people do use the internet, and that sighted people sometimes use non-graphical interfaces or graphical interfaces without keyboards.
Err... $10 Billion?
You do understand the basic concept of science, right?
1.) You observe what you're trying to describe.
2.) You come up with a theory that explains your observations.
3.) When the theory from step 2 is no longer good enough to make the predictions you want, go back to step 1.
Now, the "physical laws" have been doing pretty well at making predicitons for a while, but they aren't really "laws". They don't explain everything, and scientists continue to develop better and better models to explain things.
This all has very little to do with Moore's law. I doubt anyone is seriously using it to make accurate predictions about transistor size per time.
What do you mean by twice? If your security fails once the NSA does a calculation of difficulty 2^31, you're got less than 1 second of security.