All the other crap he spewed may or may not be true. It's hard to tell when it's obvious that he's biased against the device and fails to mention the positive points.
Lets say I have a free energy machine, but in order to use it, I add on a component that forced you to kill a child every time you turn it on. It would be useless, no matter how fantastic teh tech. The copy protection is not INHERANTLY part of the system, it is an add-on that removes functionality and renders completely useless what could otherwise be a very cool technology.
Well, I can get close. Get tiny strips of that glass that polarize black when you pass a current through it and place them in front of the laser. Behind each strip place a slightly different shaped lens. Polarize all the panes of glass to be black and flip on the laser. Now if you want the beam to go a certian direction, you depolarise only the strip of glass that covers the lens that will point to the position on the disk you want and, tada, seek times at the speed of electricity, which is close to the speed of light. Yes, this is crude, but it shows that there is at least one way to do it, there are probably more too.
I guess this could be dealt with if it is true, have a piece of refractive glass that sits between the laser and the CD, when the light hits the glass, it will refract down into the CD going in at an angle of 90 degrees.
That is old technology, trying to mimic an LP and it needs to be changed!
Instead of spinning the disk, just have one laser suspended above the CD with a splitter that alters the direction of the beam, like maybe similar in concept to a cathode ray beam. Have the "read" sensor at the focal point of a parabolic mirror covering the top of the cdrom case and fire the laser at whatever angle it takes to hit position X. The beam will bounce off the pit and either scatter or reflect back up into the mirror striking the focal point, with seek times limited only by the speed of light! Forget 100X, if you did it this way you'd be looking at 100,000,000x speeds from CDs that don't even move an inch!
Hmmm, you get paid, yes, but your paycheck is only a tiny itty bitty speck of how much money the code you write makes. Unless you make $28,000,000 a year, you are being RIPPED OFF. Doing 99.9% of the work and getting paid 0.000001% of the profit doesn't sound like a good deal to me. In fact, giving your code away for free and getting a reputation for being an excellent coder with innovative ideas will pay off MUCH more in the long run.
Just like if the RIAA were to suddenly come out with thier own MP3 download system, it wouldn't work well because they were too sluggish and let the market saturate with the competitor's product. There will be a market for this, or course, but it will be very small. Linux has eaten up everyon who wants intel unix. Some people may want solaris on intel so they can cheaply test out stuff they are eventually oing to put on thier big iron, but the average user will already have thier needs met.
No, information WANTS to be free. "Wants" not "should". The difference is very big. Water "wants" to go down hill. This is physics at work, it is unchangeable. Whether or not it "should" is a matter of opinion.
Okay, the heretical question of the day: Is privacy a right?
I don't think it is.
I'll give you that on ONE condition... that is it bilateral. If the government can know everything about me, then I want to be able to know everything about the government. Not just all the "secret" information about UFO's or whatever. I mean ALL the information, like, for eaxmple, which guy in line is going to be searched next, and why. I want to know what police do on thier days off, I want to hear the conversations Powell is having with Isreal, and I want to be able to read the credit card habits of the congressmen online. If they want me to give up my privacy, they had better be willing to give me all of thiers in return.
Since Google rewalks the internet roughly once every month, all it takes for a competitor to have equal link-share is to completely spam the internet with thier links (Maybe going down the list of sites that post Amazon links and offering to pay each and every one of them to change it to a link to your site) and procede to wait one month. One month for a total reversal of mind share is absurd in the "real world", so it looks like the internet isn't doing quite so bad after all.
...is irrelevant. *What* information is what is important. I can find anything and everything I need to on the net, what I can't find is WHAT to look for. Don't teach kinds facts and figures, teach kinds how to know what facts and figures they should be looking for!
I guess this means that the state could give "licenses" (i.e. by "hiring" employees for a penny or something) to startups to help them out and thust stimulate the economy like never before. This would rock!
It can be shown that as file sharing has increased, the numbers of super-high end luxury cars has fallen. Since these two things happened in the same time period, they MUST BE linked!
Pay at most 10 for an album, of which the artists make at least 2.
Um, why should the artist, who does 99% of the work, get less per album than the distributor who simply puts it on trucks and ships it out the door? Switch those numbers around and I'll join you!
Why invest so much money trying to replicate what just about all plants do naturally? I mean, geez, perhaps we will surpass plants' abilities to process Carbon Dioxide, but do you think it will run on water, Carbon Dioxide & dirt?
No no, we have to cut down all the trees to burn for energy to run the co2 scrubbers!
Just out of curiosity, I wonder how Sony would feel if a movie theater decided to flash a laser ad (capable of washing out the light from the projector) on top of a patch of screen that just happened to match up with one of those billboards in the movie...
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All the other crap he spewed may or may not be true. It's hard to tell when it's obvious that he's biased against the device and fails to mention the positive points.
Lets say I have a free energy machine, but in order to use it, I add on a component that forced you to kill a child every time you turn it on. It would be useless, no matter how fantastic teh tech. The copy protection is not INHERANTLY part of the system, it is an add-on that removes functionality and renders completely useless what could otherwise be a very cool technology.
Nice idea, but it won't happen. Someone will cave when presented with a briefcase full of money.
Yes, it's very crude, as I said. But that doesn't mean there isn't some possible way to do it right.
Well, I can get close. Get tiny strips of that glass that polarize black when you pass a current through it and place them in front of the laser. Behind each strip place a slightly different shaped lens. Polarize all the panes of glass to be black and flip on the laser. Now if you want the beam to go a certian direction, you depolarise only the strip of glass that covers the lens that will point to the position on the disk you want and, tada, seek times at the speed of electricity, which is close to the speed of light. Yes, this is crude, but it shows that there is at least one way to do it, there are probably more too.
I guess this could be dealt with if it is true, have a piece of refractive glass that sits between the laser and the CD, when the light hits the glass, it will refract down into the CD going in at an angle of 90 degrees.
I wish, how the hell would I even build it?
That is old technology, trying to mimic an LP and it needs to be changed!
Instead of spinning the disk, just have one laser suspended above the CD with a splitter that alters the direction of the beam, like maybe similar in concept to a cathode ray beam. Have the "read" sensor at the focal point of a parabolic mirror covering the top of the cdrom case and fire the laser at whatever angle it takes to hit position X. The beam will bounce off the pit and either scatter or reflect back up into the mirror striking the focal point, with seek times limited only by the speed of light! Forget 100X, if you did it this way you'd be looking at 100,000,000x speeds from CDs that don't even move an inch!
Hmmm, you get paid, yes, but your paycheck is only a tiny itty bitty speck of how much money the code you write makes. Unless you make $28,000,000 a year, you are being RIPPED OFF. Doing 99.9% of the work and getting paid 0.000001% of the profit doesn't sound like a good deal to me. In fact, giving your code away for free and getting a reputation for being an excellent coder with innovative ideas will pay off MUCH more in the long run.
Just like if the RIAA were to suddenly come out with thier own MP3 download system, it wouldn't work well because they were too sluggish and let the market saturate with the competitor's product. There will be a market for this, or course, but it will be very small. Linux has eaten up everyon who wants intel unix. Some people may want solaris on intel so they can cheaply test out stuff they are eventually oing to put on thier big iron, but the average user will already have thier needs met.
information should be free
No, information WANTS to be free. "Wants" not "should". The difference is very big. Water "wants" to go down hill. This is physics at work, it is unchangeable. Whether or not it "should" is a matter of opinion.
Okay, the heretical question of the day: Is privacy a right?
I don't think it is.
I'll give you that on ONE condition... that is it bilateral. If the government can know everything about me, then I want to be able to know everything about the government. Not just all the "secret" information about UFO's or whatever. I mean ALL the information, like, for eaxmple, which guy in line is going to be searched next, and why. I want to know what police do on thier days off, I want to hear the conversations Powell is having with Isreal, and I want to be able to read the credit card habits of the congressmen online. If they want me to give up my privacy, they had better be willing to give me all of thiers in return.
Use your long range sensors to detect search-space anomolies.
Since Google rewalks the internet roughly once every month, all it takes for a competitor to have equal link-share is to completely spam the internet with thier links (Maybe going down the list of sites that post Amazon links and offering to pay each and every one of them to change it to a link to your site) and procede to wait one month. One month for a total reversal of mind share is absurd in the "real world", so it looks like the internet isn't doing quite so bad after all.
...is irrelevant. *What* information is what is important. I can find anything and everything I need to on the net, what I can't find is WHAT to look for. Don't teach kinds facts and figures, teach kinds how to know what facts and figures they should be looking for!
So if I rob your house naked, you can't use the tape in court! Ha ha!
I guess this means that the state could give "licenses" (i.e. by "hiring" employees for a penny or something) to startups to help them out and thust stimulate the economy like never before. This would rock!
Ok, I know it, and it is obscene!
SmarterChild? Meet MegaHAL. MegaHAL? Meet SmarterChild.
Let the games begin.
Gayest story ever.
How could it be "gay" when the story is about a wild chick?
FILE SHARING HAS HURT LUXURY CAR SALES!
It can be shown that as file sharing has increased, the numbers of super-high end luxury cars has fallen. Since these two things happened in the same time period, they MUST BE linked!
Pay at most 10 for an album, of which the artists make at least 2 .
Um, why should the artist, who does 99% of the work, get less per album than the distributor who simply puts it on trucks and ships it out the door? Switch those numbers around and I'll join you!
Creative poet,
writes poor quality poems.
Google dissaproves.
When did trees go out of fashion?
Why invest so much money trying to replicate what just about all plants do naturally? I mean, geez, perhaps we will surpass plants' abilities to process Carbon Dioxide, but do you think it will run on water, Carbon Dioxide & dirt?
No no, we have to cut down all the trees to burn for energy to run the co2 scrubbers!
Thay've been doing this in Afghanistan for years...
Just out of curiosity, I wonder how Sony would feel if a movie theater decided to flash a laser ad (capable of washing out the light from the projector) on top of a patch of screen that just happened to match up with one of those billboards in the movie...