When you talk on a regular phone, you have to flip ears every so often, right? Well the same is true when you wear one of these after a while. Get one with two ears and you'll never have to do that... and it's a very cool effect. It sounds like they are right there with you!
I have to admit that I don't remember the physics final I took that third day, but I got a B+ on it. It really felt like I was asleep and someone else was writing the answers. Thank god they got most of them correct!
Yes, it's odd that your brain is still technically funtioning even though you as a person is not. I was having war heros giving me the answers to a history test, except it wasn't a history test at all, it was an anthropology test, but somehow the answers they gave me were right...
This too has solutions, of course, like embedding copy control systems into the output device (= monitor). By using a crypto handshake between all the devices, from disc reader to monitor, it can be the monitor itself which refuses to display the watermarked data. Since forging the crypto handshake can be extremely hard, you would be forced to degrade the video quality until the watermark is lost, losing the advantage of digital copies.
Oops, you are forgetting something: Nasty People. They will be overjoyed to make viruses that embed watermarks into your PowerPoint presentations and Word documents and add a gate in front of your web-browser so that every page that comes into your machine from the internet gets tagged with a watermark, making it unviewable.
Any technology that is inherently bad (and trying to stop regulate when and where somone views content is bad) will be used in nasty and evil ways by people who were never inteded to be given access.
In order to send information through my body, you are required to accept my "Body Pass-through Usage Agreement", which simply states that you completely and instantly transfer all copyrights and ownership on that material to me (If they don't like that, all they have to do is to stop sending thier radio waves through me).
So, I am the sole owner of those shows and music that you are hearing, and I officially give you permission to copy them and pass them around to your friends.
Sleep is very very very important. I learned that once during the final finals of my college career. I stayed up for over 112 hours (roughly 4.5 days) straight though a mixture of pluck, fear, and caffiene pills. By the end of this ordeal, I was literally barking mad.
I was seeing things that weren't there (like a staircase in my one-story flat, and various war heros standing over my shoulder giving me answers on the history test) and holding conversations with people which turned out to be completely unintelligible to both parties (with such zingers like: "Seven beer-teen and without even? You must be over. Totally joking over my and.").
only use femto or pico seconds to do it...milli is just to slow... how fast can you switch?
also take advantage of current frequency shifting/multiplexing, running both data streams, and time-data concurrently?
Maybe use a combo of the two, send 10% of the data and the decoder, timed to match the other 90% in femtoseconds?
Well, that's the rub... if your clock could actually measure in such tiny increments accurately then the bit-rate of the line would go up, thus negating the need for compression.
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If they do go under, won't Slashdot's entire database full of opinions, email addresses, etc, be up for grab at the asset auction?
Weeeellll, go down and rea the bottom where it says: "Comments are owned by the Poster." If VA wants to sell this database, then they will have to negotiate royalty payments directly with me, and I charge a $4.3 million dollar royalty fee per comment per view.
Ha ha, I read that as "Missus the real problem" and I was going to cheer because the wife won't let me get broadband since she thinks I spend too much time on the computer already!
It is possible to create "Infinite" compression, but it works like the laws of quantum mechanics, i.e. you never really get what you want. Here, I'll perform an expierement:
o I have a 1 byte file I want to send you.
o We start by synching our wrist-watches.
o I call you on the telephone and say "Start" and hang up.
o You and I start counting off the seconds.
o When the number of seconds have passed that are equal to the value of the byte, I call you back and say "Stop".
Now you have the value of the byte given to you in two bits of information (the "start" and "stop") bits.
Now we have an 8:2 ratio, which isn't bad. But I can do this again with a two byte file and get 8:1. I can send you ANY length of file and only consume two bytes of bandwidth... but at a terrible cost: time. Lots and lots of time.
But if you had something like a super far away satalite where bandwith is hard to come by and time is not in short supply, it would be the answer.
Where is what you really end up with by compressing a 1 meg file using "Super compression":
o One bit of "compressed data".
o One number tell you how many times to run the decompressing program.
Ok, sounds good so far, right? Well you are missing a little something here, which is that this is not some abstract model, that "number" you sent is going to be made up of bits, and, in the end, it will be a number larger than the 1 meg file you started with more often than it is not!
Now, what you COULD do is send a virtual-number in two bits. The way you do this is you send one bit of information, and then you wait. when the number of milliseconds equals the number that you wish to send, then you send the second bit. In fact, you don't even really need that "first" bit of compressed data, all you need is the vitural number. Now you have successfully sent one meg of information in two bits, right? Yeeeesish, but you have also spent a week just doing nothing while that number was being created, so you end up taking more time that it would have taken in the first place.
This is FUD, albiet subtle FUD. Passages like "Whilst Windows has become a component-based rapidly-developing operating system, despite the open-source pretensions of mass part-time development, there is nothing revolutionary appearing (or likely to) on the same Unix platform it always was. Hopefully it will manage to survive in the niche's where Unix has been over the last many years." give away the writer's true intentions. If you want to make a point about something, you don't just come out and say it point blank, like "Linux is crap! Bppppt!", instead you take the subtle route and try and make your readers think that they came to that conclusion all by themselves, as this article seems to be doing.
When you say "Hopefully Linux will manage to survive" what you are really saying subconciously is "Linux may not survive, so don't use it". also by adding another, better choice in the same passage ("Windows has become a component-based rapidly-developing operating system"), you allow the reader to think he has discovered for himself something that the author has blindly missed. It makes the reader think he's "figured out" that Windows is superior. When you "figure out" something like this, it is far more credible (since it is coming from your own head) than when somone just jumps out and trys to push something in your face.
The propaganda battle (often called Marketing, btw) that's been going on recently would make a Nazi blush...
Foiled again... They were SOOO close... All they had to do was make it so that it had sticky or screw feet and it could be mounted anywhere, on the wall, under shelves, etc. This could have been *the* Apple I was looking for...
The REAL use for this baby would be to mount it upside down from the top of the shelf on my cubicle. Combined with a wireless keyboard and mouse, and my desk will be so incredibly CLEAN!
wonder if this will happen before MS is actually punished for their monopolistic behavior??
What, are you kidding? Now thier whole "keep the courts busy until the Earth boils away into a fiery red giant inferno" strategy is all shot to hell...
This matters why? I mean, sure, they have to update the textbooks, but why is this worth researching, let alone newsworthy? Can this problem help us solve other problems that need to be solved?
Um, actually, this is the only problem that actually needs to be solved. What is the point of bickering over wellfare or crime or taxes or wars (or anything really) if we are going to go and cease to exist in the next 10 billion years? If the human species is goint to survive in the long term, then we have to plan in the long term.
Because if we all used FreeNet it would crash like a Microsoft built cessna flown by John Denver.
Um, how exactly does a plane "crash" when it the engines don't start and the body can't stay held together long enough to make it to the runway?:) hee hee.
Ok, I've got well over three hundred channels, a friend of mine has over eight hundred, all of these are constantly putting out new content simultaneously.
Technically, it's already stored... Even the livest of live TV eventually goes into the archives at every TV stattion in the world. All that needs to be done is turn those tape archives into digital archives and connect them together.
RockyJSquirel wrote:
Re:Why the hell was this at -1? (Score:1)
I.T.R.A.R.K. wrote:
Re:It's not just boy bands anymore (Score:-1)
by I.T.R.A.R.K. on Friday January 04, @07:32PM (#2788643)
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Write fan mail to the band and tell them why you can't listen to their music anymore. It may not accomplish much beyond pissing off the band, but at least your voice will be heard. It's bands like that who care about every last fan, because they don't have many to begin with.
If your/our complaints reach the right people, we might have an uprising one of these days. You never know. But you'll never know unless you take the time to complain to someone. It's your right. Use it.
"Adequacy.org: Where congenital stupidity is not an option, but a requirement."
Rocky J. Squirrel
Listen to what he says people! Tell the bands why you won't buy thier music. Make them aware of what the RIAA is doing to thier sales!
(P.S. Mod up I.T.R.A.R.K., not me. I've got karma coming out of my ears)
The key here is that these are statutory royalties. They are NOT a tax. They are described as royalties in the law, and they function exactly as royalties.
A royalty is what you pay in exchange for the right to make a copy. This is the ordinary meaning of the term "royalty", as it is used throughout copyright law, and there is absolutely no evidence that it means anything else in the context of the AHRA.
I have two questions: First, does this mean by buying a CDR, I am legally allowed to copy any music whose copyrights are owned by the RIAA? and Second, if I do not record any music on any of those CDs, can I send the RIAA a bill for a refund of that money?
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When you talk on a regular phone, you have to flip ears every so often, right? Well the same is true when you wear one of these after a while. Get one with two ears and you'll never have to do that... and it's a very cool effect. It sounds like they are right there with you!
One would assume that you could go an dump your heavy metals in one of the pacific trenches and let it get sucked back into the earth's core, right?
69, 99, 87
The color fo slashdot... freaky.
I have to admit that I don't remember the physics final I took that third day, but I got a B+ on it. It really felt like I was asleep and someone else was writing the answers. Thank god they got most of them correct!
Yes, it's odd that your brain is still technically funtioning even though you as a person is not. I was having war heros giving me the answers to a history test, except it wasn't a history test at all, it was an anthropology test, but somehow the answers they gave me were right...
This too has solutions, of course, like embedding copy control systems into the output device (= monitor). By using a crypto handshake between all the devices, from disc reader to monitor, it can be the monitor itself which refuses to display the watermarked data. Since forging the crypto handshake can be extremely hard, you would be forced to degrade the video quality until the watermark is lost, losing the advantage of digital copies.
Oops, you are forgetting something: Nasty People. They will be overjoyed to make viruses that embed watermarks into your PowerPoint presentations and Word documents and add a gate in front of your web-browser so that every page that comes into your machine from the internet gets tagged with a watermark, making it unviewable.
Any technology that is inherently bad (and trying to stop regulate when and where somone views content is bad) will be used in nasty and evil ways by people who were never inteded to be given access.
In order to send information through my body, you are required to accept my "Body Pass-through Usage Agreement", which simply states that you completely and instantly transfer all copyrights and ownership on that material to me (If they don't like that, all they have to do is to stop sending thier radio waves through me).
So, I am the sole owner of those shows and music that you are hearing, and I officially give you permission to copy them and pass them around to your friends.
Sleep is very very very important. I learned that once during the final finals of my college career. I stayed up for over 112 hours (roughly 4.5 days) straight though a mixture of pluck, fear, and caffiene pills. By the end of this ordeal, I was literally barking mad.
I was seeing things that weren't there (like a staircase in my one-story flat, and various war heros standing over my shoulder giving me answers on the history test) and holding conversations with people which turned out to be completely unintelligible to both parties (with such zingers like: "Seven beer-teen and without even? You must be over. Totally joking over my and.").
Get your sleep. It's good for you.
...I care about disk-size and tuners. Wheny they make a 7 tuner model with hot-swappable 80 gig drives I will be ever so happy.
only use femto or pico seconds to do it...milli is just to slow... how fast can you switch?
also take advantage of current frequency shifting/multiplexing, running both data streams, and time-data concurrently?
Maybe use a combo of the two, send 10% of the data and the decoder, timed to match the other 90% in femtoseconds?
Well, that's the rub... if your clock could actually measure in such tiny increments accurately then the bit-rate of the line would go up, thus negating the need for compression.
If they do go under, won't Slashdot's entire database full of opinions, email addresses, etc, be up for grab at the asset auction?
Weeeellll, go down and rea the bottom where it says: "Comments are owned by the Poster." If VA wants to sell this database, then they will have to negotiate royalty payments directly with me, and I charge a $4.3 million dollar royalty fee per comment per view.
Ha ha, I read that as "Missus the real problem" and I was going to cheer because the wife won't let me get broadband since she thinks I spend too much time on the computer already!
It is possible to create "Infinite" compression, but it works like the laws of quantum mechanics, i.e. you never really get what you want. Here, I'll perform an expierement:
o I have a 1 byte file I want to send you.
o We start by synching our wrist-watches.
o I call you on the telephone and say "Start" and hang up.
o You and I start counting off the seconds.
o When the number of seconds have passed that are equal to the value of the byte, I call you back and say "Stop".
Now you have the value of the byte given to you in two bits of information (the "start" and "stop") bits.
Now we have an 8:2 ratio, which isn't bad. But I can do this again with a two byte file and get 8:1. I can send you ANY length of file and only consume two bytes of bandwidth... but at a terrible cost: time. Lots and lots of time.
But if you had something like a super far away satalite where bandwith is hard to come by and time is not in short supply, it would be the answer.
Where is what you really end up with by compressing a 1 meg file using "Super compression":
o One bit of "compressed data".
o One number tell you how many times to run the decompressing program.
Ok, sounds good so far, right? Well you are missing a little something here, which is that this is not some abstract model, that "number" you sent is going to be made up of bits, and, in the end, it will be a number larger than the 1 meg file you started with more often than it is not!
Now, what you COULD do is send a virtual-number in two bits. The way you do this is you send one bit of information, and then you wait. when the number of milliseconds equals the number that you wish to send, then you send the second bit. In fact, you don't even really need that "first" bit of compressed data, all you need is the vitural number. Now you have successfully sent one meg of information in two bits, right? Yeeeesish, but you have also spent a week just doing nothing while that number was being created, so you end up taking more time that it would have taken in the first place.
This is FUD, albiet subtle FUD. Passages like "Whilst Windows has become a component-based rapidly-developing operating system, despite the open-source pretensions of mass part-time development, there is nothing revolutionary appearing (or likely to) on the same Unix platform it always was. Hopefully it will manage to survive in the niche's where Unix has been over the last many years." give away the writer's true intentions. If you want to make a point about something, you don't just come out and say it point blank, like "Linux is crap! Bppppt!", instead you take the subtle route and try and make your readers think that they came to that conclusion all by themselves, as this article seems to be doing.
When you say "Hopefully Linux will manage to survive" what you are really saying subconciously is "Linux may not survive, so don't use it". also by adding another, better choice in the same passage ("Windows has become a component-based rapidly-developing operating system"), you allow the reader to think he has discovered for himself something that the author has blindly missed. It makes the reader think he's "figured out" that Windows is superior. When you "figure out" something like this, it is far more credible (since it is coming from your own head) than when somone just jumps out and trys to push something in your face.
The propaganda battle (often called Marketing, btw) that's been going on recently would make a Nazi blush...
Foiled again... They were SOOO close... All they had to do was make it so that it had sticky or screw feet and it could be mounted anywhere, on the wall, under shelves, etc. This could have been *the* Apple I was looking for...
The REAL use for this baby would be to mount it upside down from the top of the shelf on my cubicle. Combined with a wireless keyboard and mouse, and my desk will be so incredibly CLEAN!
wonder if this will happen before MS is actually punished for their monopolistic behavior??
What, are you kidding? Now thier whole "keep the courts busy until the Earth boils away into a fiery red giant inferno" strategy is all shot to hell...
This matters why? I mean, sure, they have to update the textbooks, but why is this worth researching, let alone newsworthy? Can this problem help us solve other problems that need to be solved?
Um, actually, this is the only problem that actually needs to be solved. What is the point of bickering over wellfare or crime or taxes or wars (or anything really) if we are going to go and cease to exist in the next 10 billion years? If the human species is goint to survive in the long term, then we have to plan in the long term.
Astronomer Patrick Moore said: "In the end, no one really knows what is going to happen. But my message would be 'don't panic'."
Those of us who have already seen the galaxy on 30 Altairian dollars a day agree...
Because if we all used FreeNet it would crash like a Microsoft built cessna flown by John Denver.
:) hee hee.
Um, how exactly does a plane "crash" when it the engines don't start and the body can't stay held together long enough to make it to the runway?
Embeds itself on the victim and then slowly feeds on it?
Ah ha! I was wondering where my ex-girlfriend had moved to... and now I know: New Zealand.
And just how, exactly, are the next three wise men going to make it all the way to Mauna Kea, Hawaii on camel-back?
Ok, I've got well over three hundred channels, a friend of mine has over eight hundred, all of these are constantly putting out new content simultaneously.
Technically, it's already stored... Even the livest of live TV eventually goes into the archives at every TV stattion in the world. All that needs to be done is turn those tape archives into digital archives and connect them together.
RockyJSquirel wrote:
Re:Why the hell was this at -1? (Score:1)
I.T.R.A.R.K. wrote:
Re:It's not just boy bands anymore (Score:-1)
by I.T.R.A.R.K. on Friday January 04, @07:32PM (#2788643)
(User #533627 Info | http://povo-hat.besmella-quake.com/test/)
Write fan mail to the band and tell them why you can't listen to their music anymore. It may not accomplish much beyond pissing off the band, but at least your voice will be heard. It's bands like that who care about every last fan, because they don't have many to begin with.
If your/our complaints reach the right people, we might have an uprising one of these days. You never know. But you'll never know unless you take the time to complain to someone. It's your right. Use it.
"Adequacy.org: Where congenital stupidity is not an option, but a requirement."
Rocky J. Squirrel
Listen to what he says people! Tell the bands why you won't buy thier music. Make them aware of what the RIAA is doing to thier sales!
(P.S. Mod up I.T.R.A.R.K., not me. I've got karma coming out of my ears)
The key here is that these are statutory royalties. They are NOT a tax. They are described as royalties in the law, and they function exactly as royalties.
A royalty is what you pay in exchange for the right to make a copy. This is the ordinary meaning of the term "royalty", as it is used throughout copyright law, and there is absolutely no evidence that it means anything else in the context of the AHRA.
I have two questions: First, does this mean by buying a CDR, I am legally allowed to copy any music whose copyrights are owned by the RIAA? and Second, if I do not record any music on any of those CDs, can I send the RIAA a bill for a refund of that money?