They're just going to get Congress to mandate it, and that will be the end of the discussion.
But then again, it will affect congressmen and their families/friends. They will sit down to use a new piece of technology and become frustrated with the artificial limitations. This will become more prevelant as the baby boomers move out of office and younger generations move in. The knife will cut both ways, and will probably end up being its own undoing.
I agree with Linus; there is a problem, but its not as bad as we imagine.
http://www.centennialbulb.org/photos.htm
It's a bulb in a Livermore/Pleasanton fire house. It has a carbon filament that is much thicker than modern bulbs and also burns much cooler/darker. (105 years old)
Yeah, they're called plants. They use this process known as photosynthesis to do just that (where do you think most of the carbon came from in the oil that we're drilling up?). We need to stop making so much CO2.
There were many games that had copy protection in the 1980s. Those games should enter the public domain in the 2030's. Many of the companies that produced those titles are now defunct and there are no known "original works" for release. It would be interesting to hear proponents of DRM and such lengthy copyright terms provide an explanation for how these works will enter the public domain.
Personally, I think that software copyright terms should extend no longer than 10 years. Most 10-year-old software is obsolete, and the copyright holders do not gain from it in any meaningful way. This is particularly true of video games, which typically have lifespans measured in months, not years.
The Nintendo 64 sold 32.93 million units, while the GameCube sold 21 million units (and counting, I suppose). This would imply that it wasn't as successful as the '64.
I would definitely suggest teaching discrete math; its ties to algorithm design and efficiency are very strong. I use it all the time with various job-related functions.
Why is everyone skipping over other obvious conclusions:
7) He is lying, and he didn't vote for himself in order to spark outrage at the new ballot machines.
8) He is incompetent/ignorant and didn't vote for himself by accident.
I think this was all architected to get page hits at Tom's. The article sucks, and the mouse-overs on the page popped up more than once _accidentally_ for me. I'm not "looking forward" to part two. Maybe Ars will do a proper article on MythTV someday.
I don't know anything about Halogen, but there is another fan-coded RTS/FPS called Tremulous. It's pretty fun, and very well balanced. It's based on the GPL Quake 3 code. Nobody is going to be sending a cease-and-desist letter any time soon... or ever.
I wouldn't be surprised if 99% of the people who are so passionately demanding their "fair use" exemptions are not teachers trying to educate the future business leaders of America...
For educational use is but one example. What if I want to remix a song that I have? As long as I do not re-distrbute the derivative work, I am abiding by copyright law. How do you think bands end up with material from sampled songs in the FIRST place? They don't sign a separate contract from the RIAA for unrestricted access before the creative period starts, but rather, license the material after the matter. People use the educational angle to appeal to a broad range of individuals, but it is by no means the only reason for fair use.
Even Apple's DRM makes this sort of thing a huge pain in the ass. You can't import an iTunes song into Garage Band, for example. You have to burn it to a CD, and then re-rip it back (which is technically illegal*).
Because HTTPS only offers point-to-point security. If you need to encrypt or authenticate through a web service proxy (e.g. an ESB) you can't guarantee or prove the security of the document from point A to B to C.
The client certainly knows that he is operating through a proxy. One can also issue client-side certificates, if it's that crucial; this would defeat a proxy (or, drill the security down to the browser software at any means). A simple keylogger or other spy software can defeat even WS-*. HTTPS has been Good Enough for pretty much everything I've ever written; and Basic Authentication is just so darn ubiquitous that it's almost sinfully easy to roll it all together.
But ffpmeg (MPlayer/VLC) work much better. As more folks start using MPlayer/VLC to watch media, there will be less need for the WMV (and QuickTime) proprietary protocols.
So, they can ignore the Macintosh at their own peril.
Yes; as processors become more sophisticated, data can be compressed more efficently. Blueray is a trojan horse that Sony wants to use to wage its format war. It has little added value for games over DVD.
Wiki software typically keeps all revisions to a page. All an unhappy Chinese citizen would have to do is click on the "History" tab at the top to see all the forbidden information on depressing lifestyles.
I know that compartmentalization sounds like a good idea, but in kernel-land there are very few "subsystems" that can die without taking everything else down with them. Even if something apparently benign (like the sound driver) goes south the operating system is still non-functional from the users's perspective. Bad AGP drivers can stomp all over memory, regardless the presense of a sandbox. Taking the time to pass messages may buy the system some stability in certain situations, but the cost of doing so is quite expensive.
I think history will be the judge. So far, microkernels are on the losing end; but if the claim "Nooks can catch 99 percent of the fatal driver errors and 55 percent of the nonfatal ones" is true, then maybe we'll see more uKernel designs in the future.
I would agree with the level design; but then again, there wasn't much exploration outside of Traverse Town in the original (just as there isn't much exploration outside of Twilight Town in this one). I think in KH1 there were 2 branches in Tarzan, and practically just two rooms in Neverland. I wish that they had spent more time developing a smaller number of worlds.. I mean Mulan and Beast's Castle...?? WTF?
Tron Sora was fun; and the light-cycle minigame was OK. But then, Square almost never has good mini-games.
As for the difficulty; if you play it on 'hard', it's about the same as the first game.
I really, really enjoyed this game. The music was incredible; the story is solid and the surprises abounded.
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Try searching for PS3 instead of Playstation 3: http://www.google.com/trends?q=xbox360%2C+ps3%2C+w ii&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
You need to tune up your googlefu.
They're just going to get Congress to mandate it, and that will be the end of the discussion.
But then again, it will affect congressmen and their families/friends. They will sit down to use a new piece of technology and become frustrated with the artificial limitations. This will become more prevelant as the baby boomers move out of office and younger generations move in. The knife will cut both ways, and will probably end up being its own undoing.
I agree with Linus; there is a problem, but its not as bad as we imagine.
Of course, nobody has ever accused the Java runtime of being dainty...
Alastair Reynolds? Is that you??
http://www.centennialbulb.org/photos.htm It's a bulb in a Livermore/Pleasanton fire house. It has a carbon filament that is much thicker than modern bulbs and also burns much cooler/darker. (105 years old)
Yeah, they're called plants. They use this process known as photosynthesis to do just that (where do you think most of the carbon came from in the oil that we're drilling up?). We need to stop making so much CO2.
I lol'd, if that helps.
That's ridiculous. :-(
There were many games that had copy protection in the 1980s. Those games should enter the public domain in the 2030's. Many of the companies that produced those titles are now defunct and there are no known "original works" for release. It would be interesting to hear proponents of DRM and such lengthy copyright terms provide an explanation for how these works will enter the public domain.
Personally, I think that software copyright terms should extend no longer than 10 years. Most 10-year-old software is obsolete, and the copyright holders do not gain from it in any meaningful way. This is particularly true of video games, which typically have lifespans measured in months, not years.
The Nintendo 64 sold 32.93 million units, while the GameCube sold 21 million units (and counting, I suppose). This would imply that it wasn't as successful as the '64.
I would definitely suggest teaching discrete math; its ties to algorithm design and efficiency are very strong. I use it all the time with various job-related functions.
Why is everyone skipping over other obvious conclusions: 7) He is lying, and he didn't vote for himself in order to spark outrage at the new ballot machines. 8) He is incompetent/ignorant and didn't vote for himself by accident.
I think this was all architected to get page hits at Tom's. The article sucks, and the mouse-overs on the page popped up more than once _accidentally_ for me. I'm not "looking forward" to part two. Maybe Ars will do a proper article on MythTV someday.
I don't know anything about Halogen, but there is another fan-coded RTS/FPS called Tremulous. It's pretty fun, and very well balanced. It's based on the GPL Quake 3 code. Nobody is going to be sending a cease-and-desist letter any time soon... or ever.
It's not flamebait at all, it's actually the truth...
For educational use is but one example. What if I want to remix a song that I have? As long as I do not re-distrbute the derivative work, I am abiding by copyright law. How do you think bands end up with material from sampled songs in the FIRST place? They don't sign a separate contract from the RIAA for unrestricted access before the creative period starts, but rather, license the material after the matter. People use the educational angle to appeal to a broad range of individuals, but it is by no means the only reason for fair use.
Even Apple's DRM makes this sort of thing a huge pain in the ass. You can't import an iTunes song into Garage Band, for example. You have to burn it to a CD, and then re-rip it back (which is technically illegal*).
*For RIAA/MPAA values of legal
Too many people are ignorant of economics and mistakenly try to apply "common sense" to these issues.
Because HTTPS only offers point-to-point security. If you need to encrypt or authenticate through a web service proxy (e.g. an ESB) you can't guarantee or prove the security of the document from point A to B to C.
The client certainly knows that he is operating through a proxy. One can also issue client-side certificates, if it's that crucial; this would defeat a proxy (or, drill the security down to the browser software at any means). A simple keylogger or other spy software can defeat even WS-*. HTTPS has been Good Enough for pretty much everything I've ever written; and Basic Authentication is just so darn ubiquitous that it's almost sinfully easy to roll it all together.
But ffpmeg (MPlayer/VLC) work much better. As more folks start using MPlayer/VLC to watch media, there will be less need for the WMV (and QuickTime) proprietary protocols.
So, they can ignore the Macintosh at their own peril.
One problem with your premise; Microsoft doesn't make a profit on xbox. They hope, to eventually make a profit, but they currently do not.
Will gamers buy it? Time will tell.
Wiki software typically keeps all revisions to a page. All an unhappy Chinese citizen would have to do is click on the "History" tab at the top to see all the forbidden information on depressing lifestyles.
It was a quote from the article; it's interesting that "Nooks" appears to be affiliated with both projects. Thanks for the tip.
I think history will be the judge. So far, microkernels are on the losing end; but if the claim "Nooks can catch 99 percent of the fatal driver errors and 55 percent of the nonfatal ones" is true, then maybe we'll see more uKernel designs in the future.
Tron Sora was fun; and the light-cycle minigame was OK. But then, Square almost never has good mini-games.
As for the difficulty; if you play it on 'hard', it's about the same as the first game.
I really, really enjoyed this game. The music was incredible; the story is solid and the surprises abounded.