I look for a new ecosystem to arise, akin to the open source movement, with music licensed freely to all, with returns coming from the sale of artifacts (DVD's, t-shirts, etc.), and concert tickets.
"Though if you often look at the keys while typing, you may not be enough of a keyboardist to fully appreciate the merits of a real quality keyboard. "
I was using Alt163 before you needed to prefix it with a zero I'll have you know!
I've had a go at using CVT's Win98 utility to reprogram the 4/$ key to produce £ (UKP), but the software seems a tad flaky. You have a go. Try making Alt-4 or Ctrl-Alt-4 produce Alt-0163.
Cos JRR wasn't entirely sure they shouldn't have been left out of the LOTR either.
In the end he left Tom in as a kind of mystery/flaw that in some strange way adds strength/power to the book.
I guess if you have to cut something out of the movie, it might as well be that which only just made it into the book. In another sense, by missing these out, the 'perfected' movie has a lesser, weaker magic than the original - perhaps a mark of respect?
LOTR started off as a sequel to the Hobbit and it's early stages have echoes of the kind of thing he wanted to write for his kids as well as the other lighthearted stuff he was writing, though nonetheless worthy. LOTR soon became transformed into the much grander epic we know.
Didn't read it too carefully, but are they using diffraction grating effects to create colours? Or encoding different images at different viewing angles?
If not, anyone else thought about the possibility of doing this?
Oslo, Norway... The mean temperature in July is 16.4 oC. The highest recorded maximum temperature is 35.1 oC. In spite of the occurrence of rainy and cold days, the Oslo weather is usually rather pleasant in July with sunny days and maximum temperature between 20 and 30 oC
Alaska's hottest temperature of 100 oF was recorded north of the Arctic Circle. And that's as hot as Hawaii gets.
If you'd spent a summer in the arctic you might realise why you'd probably still need air cooling. Instead of 12 hours of sun, they get 24 hours. It can get pretty hot when there's no cool-off period.
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You're right, they ain't necessary. You can still do business without copyright.
If unrestricted copying becomes legal (and copyright is abandoned as a quaint custom) artists will still make money while people want new art. Don't worry about it.
www.digitalartauction.com
The public is bigger than the government - last time I looked anyway - or are Americans just sheep these days?
Perfect cryptography is no good unless you have an easy way of demonstrating to yourself that you have actually got such a thing.
If someone gives you a black box and says it's perfectly secure, how do you know?
Do you get out your pocket quantum inteferometry tester and check it?
Even public key encryption is tricky to have confidence in unless you're a mathematician/programmer and can check the source code over to be assured of its correctness.
I could sell you a pair of network cards today with optical connections, put a couple of zeroes on the end of the price tag, and tell you they used quantum encryption. How are YOU going to find out otherwise?
It all comes down to trusting someone. And then we're back at square one - imperfect security.
I wouldn't be suprised if public key encryption remains preferable to quantum encryption, if only because it's much easier to assure yourself that you're using the mechanism you think you're using.
Even the military/CIA may prefer it for that reason - they have to buy their black boxes off someone too...
I wonder why Bamboo used ACE and then moved to NSPR?
Curious...
http://watsen.net/Bamboo/
Early 1999 to Present In the true spirit of Bamboo, we try to defer as many decisions as possible regarding the application until runtime. Sometime in early 1999 it occurred to us that there was one last assumption we were making: C++. Although we were using other languages with Bamboo (a Java AWT GUI and some Python scripts), their code segments were embedded into C++ modules. That is, is was not possible to have a 100% Java (i.e. platform- independent) module, which is rather troubling for some Java purists. We are now in the process of correcting this omission with a brand new architecture that simultaneously attempts to solve some other issues. For instance, we are replacing ACE with NSPR (the Netscape Portable Runtime), adding automatic code documentation (Doc++), adding printable docs (HyperLatex), a bug-tracking database (Bugzilla), searching of both the online docs and the bug database, and an online SCM (Perforce).
So at best you get to ensure the location of the recipient.
And if the recipient records the video on their HDD and e-mails it to a friend?
And their friend bungs it on a file sharing service?
This may be good for preventing casual interception for location-to-location messaging when both parties want to keep things secret, but why is it any good if the recipient couldn't give a damn about secrecy?
How is this going to help stick another finger in the rapidly spongifying dyke of copyright?
One thing I don't cover on the digitalartauction site (yet) is the marketing side of things.
We know that there's going to be a revolution here too (see cluetrain). Word of mouth and personal recommendation are going to be vastly superior to spam. Spam won't get anywhere.
Anyway, to facilitate and encourage viral marketing it's quite feasible to create a referral URL with micro-commission, and moreover allow anyone to create a sub-referral URL out of one they got from a friend. This uses the pyramid selling approach (but a fair commission level even so) to counteract the decision cost of punters putting the referral on their e-mails or websites.
So it's likely that e-mails will be adorned with referrals of the sender's favourite bands, authors, film companies, etc. Unsolicited to some degree, but shored up by the reputation of the sender. Just as people put stickers in their car windows, or wear T-shirts with their bands on, etc.
So in future I might add at the foot of a post to slashdot, a referral to pledge $1 or so for Marie Boine's next album... (and I might get $10 back if 1,000 people pledge via my referral, or sub-referrals, etc.).
But, it's curious that corporations who'd like to automate the craftsman/customer relationship to such an extent that they can talk about their market as an amorphous mass, fail to spot the opportunity of actually dealing with them that way, i.e. in parallel, instead of in series.
Purchasing is still done (no matter how distant the original craftsman or artist is) as millions of single transactions between punter and retailer. And this is ingrained as the only way to deal with the market, a series of individual punters.
You ask a big cable TV company (with a return path) if they've ever considered flogging something to their audience in a single, mass transaction (instead of one at a time) and they simply don't grok it. They have the simultaneous attention of thousands of punters with dollars and buttons at the ready, all that buying power, and they aren't selling them anything. They're missing a trick. An example? Well they could say "We'll get Marillion to perform live next week if we get a total pledge from you of $10,000 - press your $1 button now".
But, it may well be that big business is a dinosaur. Simply too big, and a brain too tiny to understand its own doom. I think you're right, we are going to see the rise of crafstmen (and small companies of them) dealing directly with their customers, and in the case of digital art, dealing en masse.
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Sounds like Blender could be a good example of why we need a mechanism such as the Digital Art Auction: www.digitalartauction.com
See how here: The Digital Art Auction
The Digital Art Auction
It let's the audience pay the artist, doesn't need copyright and doesn't use encryption.
"Though if you often look at the keys while typing, you may not be enough of a keyboardist to fully appreciate the merits of a real quality keyboard. "
I was using Alt163 before you needed to prefix it with a zero I'll have you know!
I've had a go at using CVT's Win98 utility to reprogram the 4/$ key to produce £ (UKP), but the software seems a tad flaky. You have a go. Try making Alt-4 or Ctrl-Alt-4 produce Alt-0163.
You know, I had a feeling you'd propose bits of card and glue or sticky tape, or some such.
What? You mean getting a key to generate a different character from the one that's printed on it?
Sounds confusing.
If you'd like to tell me where I can get all the different key tops too then I might be interested, but it's not that big a deal.
Yup, the Avant Prime keyboard is the one I use (by Creative Vision Technologies, Inc.)
I even put up with a US layout (have to do ALT 0163 for the pounds sterling symbol).
Cos JRR wasn't entirely sure they shouldn't have been left out of the LOTR either.
In the end he left Tom in as a kind of mystery/flaw that in some strange way adds strength/power to the book.
I guess if you have to cut something out of the movie, it might as well be that which only just made it into the book. In another sense, by missing these out, the 'perfected' movie has a lesser, weaker magic than the original - perhaps a mark of respect?
LOTR started off as a sequel to the Hobbit and it's early stages have echoes of the kind of thing he wanted to write for his kids as well as the other lighthearted stuff he was writing, though nonetheless worthy. LOTR soon became transformed into the much grander epic we know.
Over one billion simultaneously displayed colors?
hmmm 10^9...
that's a resolution of 10^5 * 10^4 = 100,000 x 10,000, if we assume that to display a billion colors simultaneously you need a pixel per color.
(NB this was a stupidly petty, but mildly amusing comment)
How about this: http://www.digitalartauction.com
Didn't read it too carefully, but are they using diffraction grating effects to create colours? Or encoding different images at different viewing angles?
If not, anyone else thought about the possibility of doing this?
Yep, I agree.
And there's no reason why patronage can't be performed on the web by the artist's audience en masse.
The following site explains further:
www.digitalartauction.com
Check out Creative Vision Technologies (CVT) for the only manufacturer still going of the old style keyboards.
I've got their Avant Prime model, and even though it has a US layout, it's still worth using over a UK layout 'squidgy/quiet' keyboard.
Been there, done that. See The Digital Art Auction
Oslo, Norway...
The mean temperature in July is 16.4 oC. The highest recorded maximum temperature is 35.1 oC. In spite of the occurrence of rainy and cold days, the Oslo weather is usually rather pleasant in July with sunny days and maximum temperature between 20 and 30 oC
Alaska's hottest temperature of 100 oF was recorded north of the Arctic Circle. And that's as hot as Hawaii gets.
If you'd spent a summer in the arctic you might realise why you'd probably still need air cooling. Instead of 12 hours of sun, they get 24 hours. It can get pretty hot when there's no cool-off period.
Check out: The Digital Art Auction
Who rus the country?
The people or their representatives?
If 99% of the people do X then X is legal.
If you want to drink alcohol, drink it.
If you want to copy TV programmes, copy them.
If unrestricted copying becomes legal (and copyright is abandoned as a quaint custom) artists will still make money while people want new art. Don't worry about it.
www.digitalartauction.com
The public is bigger than the government - last time I looked anyway - or are Americans just sheep these days?
Once you accept that copying digital information is easy and it should be easy, then it's easy to move on and figure out how to make money.
This is how you do it: The Digital Art Auction
Perfect cryptography is no good unless you have an easy way of demonstrating to yourself that you have actually got such a thing.
If someone gives you a black box and says it's perfectly secure, how do you know?
Do you get out your pocket quantum inteferometry tester and check it?
Even public key encryption is tricky to have confidence in unless you're a mathematician/programmer and can check the source code over to be assured of its correctness.
I could sell you a pair of network cards today with optical connections, put a couple of zeroes on the end of the price tag, and tell you they used quantum encryption. How are YOU going to find out otherwise?
It all comes down to trusting someone. And then we're back at square one - imperfect security.
I wouldn't be suprised if public key encryption remains preferable to quantum encryption, if only because it's much easier to assure yourself that you're using the mechanism you think you're using.
Even the military/CIA may prefer it for that reason - they have to buy their black boxes off someone too...
I wonder why Bamboo used ACE and then moved to NSPR?
Curious...
http://watsen.net/Bamboo/
Early 1999 to Present
In the true spirit of Bamboo, we try to defer as many decisions as possible regarding the application until runtime. Sometime in early 1999 it occurred to us that there was one last assumption we were making: C++. Although we were using other languages with Bamboo (a Java AWT GUI and some Python scripts), their code segments were embedded into C++ modules. That is, is was not possible to have a 100% Java (i.e. platform- independent) module, which is rather troubling for some Java purists. We are now in the process of correcting this omission with a brand new architecture that simultaneously attempts to solve some other issues. For instance, we are replacing ACE with NSPR (the Netscape Portable Runtime), adding automatic code documentation (Doc++), adding printable docs (HyperLatex), a bug-tracking database (Bugzilla), searching of both the online docs and the bug database, and an online SCM (Perforce).
So at best you get to ensure the location of the recipient.
And if the recipient records the video on their HDD and e-mails it to a friend?
And their friend bungs it on a file sharing service?
This may be good for preventing casual interception for location-to-location messaging when both parties want to keep things secret, but why is it any good if the recipient couldn't give a damn about secrecy?
How is this going to help stick another finger in the rapidly spongifying dyke of copyright?
One thing I don't cover on the digitalartauction site (yet) is the marketing side of things.
We know that there's going to be a revolution here too (see cluetrain). Word of mouth and personal recommendation are going to be vastly superior to spam. Spam won't get anywhere.
Anyway, to facilitate and encourage viral marketing it's quite feasible to create a referral URL with micro-commission, and moreover allow anyone to create a sub-referral URL out of one they got from a friend. This uses the pyramid selling approach (but a fair commission level even so) to counteract the decision cost of punters putting the referral on their e-mails or websites.
So it's likely that e-mails will be adorned with referrals of the sender's favourite bands, authors, film companies, etc. Unsolicited to some degree, but shored up by the reputation of the sender. Just as people put stickers in their car windows, or wear T-shirts with their bands on, etc.
So in future I might add at the foot of a post to slashdot, a referral to pledge $1 or so for Marie Boine's next album... (and I might get $10 back if 1,000 people pledge via my referral, or sub-referrals, etc.).
You're right. And the Cluetrain is right.
But, it's curious that corporations who'd like to automate the craftsman/customer relationship to such an extent that they can talk about their market as an amorphous mass, fail to spot the opportunity of actually dealing with them that way, i.e. in parallel, instead of in series.
Purchasing is still done (no matter how distant the original craftsman or artist is) as millions of single transactions between punter and retailer. And this is ingrained as the only way to deal with the market, a series of individual punters.
You ask a big cable TV company (with a return path) if they've ever considered flogging something to their audience in a single, mass transaction (instead of one at a time) and they simply don't grok it. They have the simultaneous attention of thousands of punters with dollars and buttons at the ready, all that buying power, and they aren't selling them anything. They're missing a trick. An example? Well they could say "We'll get Marillion to perform live next week if we get a total pledge from you of $10,000 - press your $1 button now".
But, it may well be that big business is a dinosaur. Simply too big, and a brain too tiny to understand its own doom. I think you're right, we are going to see the rise of crafstmen (and small companies of them) dealing directly with their customers, and in the case of digital art, dealing en masse.