with this technology, NASA could fake the moon/mars landings again, and this time - get it right! rofl
You could do lots of interesting tricks with this - like changing the cut-off on the z-buffer, so when someone walks away from the camera, it looks like they're walking through a wall.
Instead of making laws, why don't governments simply educate the general population as to how much they are getting ripped off by DVDs, Playstations and Microsoft. If I was in charge I would fund a series of adverts that showed people exactly how much profit these companies make, how cheap it really is to press a CD, and how production costs aren't that high when split over millions of customers.
I would show them how they could live in a world where DVDs could be watched anywhere, where they weren't restricted as to when they could fast-forward, or copy, and how these massive companies bribe governments to restrict freedom. I would introduce them to the idea of operating systems other than Microsoft Windows(R) that were free and open so you couldn't hide malicious code in them.
You would think people would know this already, but you would be surprised how many non-slashdot readers honestly think that it costs _that_much_ to make a DVD, even though the studio has already made a massive box-office profit. People actually don't realise how much they are being ripped off and controlled. They have been completely conditioned.
Obviously I would probably be sued if I had these public-service-announcements made and showen, but thats how the world works.
I don't want to sound analy retentive, but i explaned that in the post:
And don't try to tell me that [production cost]/[expected no. of sales] = the retail price of most new games
Let me explain:
A standard simple model for pricing things is as follows:
[The TOTAL Cost of Production] divided by [How many units you plan to sell] plus [Some resonable profit]
ie. You figure out how much it costs to higher programmers, actors, writers, directors, sets, cameras etc. etc.
You figure out how many people are going to buy it.
Thus you know how much to charge in order to pay the programmers, etc.
This works for films, games, software and real world things like cars, computers and palm pilots. In the case of intellectual property it is special, because the actual production cost is near zero. When you divide the production cost of a game by the number of people that buy it, you see that each person doesn't need to pay anywhere near what they pay now in order for the company to make a profit
When your completly pissed or stoned to the hills, an 8-bit console with a little mario-sprite looks _amazing_ (or the expression "RAD DUDE!" may apply) while a PS2 or $Box will make you feel like your just watching real lfe.
I got GTA-3 so i could Zap (shoot/beatup) Americans. lol
No but seriously, they charge why to much. Yes, i know entertainment is a non essential item, but all that money for a bit of plastic that costs nothing to press? And don't try to tell me that [production cost]/[expected no. of sales] = the retail price of most new games. People are making profit here that makes the drug market look cheap. I and many others get addicted to games with serious side-effects - joint problems, fatigue, eye problems, social problems, moral issues, not to mention the cost. Kinda makes snorting coke look like an easy ride
Oh no, what a mother f*cking stupid idea. No i'm taking no prisoners on this one. The people who came up with this have too much time and no brian. They are stupid gimps. Probably footballer/jocks. Why? ok WHY!?? in the fu*king name of all that is HOLY? would these stupid gimps want to do this?!? I mean, for crist sake, the CSS HAS BEEN CRACKED YOU IDIOTS. No amount of painting with stupid paint will stop people copying your stupid bits of rip-off plastic onto their computers. DO YOU UNDERSTAND? This is going right to the top of the dumb ideas hall of fame, because i have no time for time wasters who manage to get millions in funding from stupid managers who have no _clue_ how stupid the product is.
I just remember the Computer Stew episode when he tried to turn himseft in for a pirate copy of MS Office. - He tried the BSA, Police, Mayor, Attorey General, and Microsoft. At the end of the program they said something like "And what have we learned today? - If you pirate software, you might just go to jail - yeah, if you have the patience."
No you may not. I don't fall into any of the above categories except maybe girlfriendless:( i like to take my time and get to know a girl, until you come in and sweet-talk all them into going out with you in 5 minutes with your this and that, and then you're a total prick to them, you give guys a bad name. (i'm making a massive assumption here i know). I'm sure you have plenty of time for your girlfriend, unless of course the guys get you out for a drink so you can all go around flirting with others, or there's a game on that you have to spend hours watching, You represent the cave-man fighting mentality of the human race, you judged us [nerds] totally on appearance in your post, what does this say about you? Not only that, but you manage to make money from playing a game involving kicking a ball. Now, don't get me wrong, making money from something totally pointless is an enviable job to have, but it just pisses me off when people just can't see through you guys.
We try to better ourselves and society with art and science, we take interest in our surroundings, and learning as much as we can. Maybe we can't throw a ball half a mile, or smash someones face in, but those are things that society should have evolved through a long time ago.
btw, i have never electricuted anyone in my life, or posted someones internet cache for all the world to see.
If closed source software from an outside developer (ie. windows) is used by a government, surely that leaves room for said developer to hide code in there that could do damage - eg. fake votes, memos etc. you get the idea...
All we need is a decent de-compiler that inteligently looks at the machine code, figures out what it does and produces commented C.. Or, a super monk, who has learned intel machine code off by heart and can translate it. Or maybe a team of low-paid grad students.. Then we can bring Microsoft to their knees lol
It's just the 75 GXP that had the horrible problems. The process for the 60 GXP is different.
Yes, different, not better, the difference is, that the 60 GXP makes an odd "buzz-click, buzz-click" sound about a week or two before it fails. Mine did this but i didn't know what it ment until after it had failed and i had looked in forums & usenet. This is a very useful sound that literally means "back-up all your data now, IBM has sent you a brick" my drive was made in october 2001 and failed about a month later. You should read about the recovery methods people have tried - my fav: "Place your drive in a sealed water-tight bag in dry conditions. Place it in the freezer for a few hours. After you take it out, you will have about 20mins to get your data off before it dies for good."
Thankyou for proving my point. He was not being nice, he was tring to screw you over by making you lower your defences. They are trained in this. I won't even comment on the quote:)
Why don't drive manufactures just make them like this in the first place. If i had to choose between buying to identical drives, but one had a window, i'd go for the window every time. (Except ofcourse if it was an IBM drive, then i would laugh at it and pitty any poor sod who paid good money for it.
Here are some other good HD mods:
*If you have an IBM deskstar 60 or 75 GXP, hook a mini microphone up inside the case, near the drive. Connect it to an amp/speakers, and voila: A handy drive monitor that will let you hear the "buzz click" sound that means your drive has a week before it fails and turns into a brick
*If you have an IBM deskstar 60 or 75 GXP, drill a small hole in your case, run the ide/power cable through. Next get a cardboard box with some air vents. Put your drive in an antistatic bag, bubble rap and some foam, place it in the box, plug it in. Now, when your drive fails next month, you don't even have to open the case, just write the returns number on the box and ship it back to IBM.
*If you have an IBM deskstar 60 or 75 GXP, use it to practice dangerous window modding, and then when it goes wrong, claim that the insane clicking noises made you do it...
*If you have an IBM deskstar 60 or 75 GXP, congratulations - you will soon be the proud owner of a paper-weight.
Some users are genuine and want to learn. But, IMHO _All_ footballer/jocks (with no exception) who even come within a 50m radius of you regardless of if or not they are using a computer, should be electricuted (but kept alive) and locked in a storage room while you print out copies of their browsers' history containing such interesting sites as red-hot-cheerleaders.com (if the history is clean, fake it) and post it up for all the world to see (including their girlfriends). They should then be stoned to death with footballs from your homemade catapult.
This is probably off-topic, but i think i can swing it through with the 'be nice to your users' comment
Yeah, someone heard the "buzz, click, buzz, click" sound and suddenly a partition containing windows and solitare corrupted. The astronaughts had to spend 6 hours without that game, (until someone remembered the russian tetris backup)
Well, atleast now NASA themselves will be behind the IBM lawsuit
Bush join with other countries??!!! HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAA ROFL!!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OH GOD STOP! I CAN'T OH OH HAAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHAHHAAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAAHAA HA HA haaaaaaaa, sigh... haa... ahhh... ok, ok, i'm ok, i can breath again.. wow, I don't know if you were being sarcastic but you should get modded up 5 funny.. Bush wouldn't join with other countries if the world depended on it lol. As far as he is concerned, every country on your list is an enemy. Although, maybe i can see him colonising - the way he would see it is America 0w3ning the universe. I think we have a few problems down here to solve, before we go fu*king up other planets.
Out of crap ideas like region encoding, selling mp3s and cuecat, finally comes an excellent one.
You would need to release schematics/open source software, so that anyone could make one, even after they were banned. You could probably stick a wireless card in a notebook or PDA and use some software straight off
I'm sure it would create lots of new cultural events: like groups of kids hanging around some bum on a street corner trading files instead of drugs lol, and you could just imagine the stake-outs the police would do: you've just finished swapping fils when suddenly "POLICE! FREEZE!! DOWN ON THE GROUND" (they start beating you with their sticks) "Your under arrest for copy-right infringement, possesion of, and intent to supply" You see, the files you just swapped were on a police decoy. They tracked you device with triangulation, and right now, their checking it to see if it has the dummy police file on it. Your going down. Then there would be the crowds "Oh my god, someone has some hot pr0n" "where where???" "everyone go to the park, quick, theres someone with some _hot_ pr0n!!" 5 mins later you take off your headphones, look up from your newspaper, and 500 people are standing around you ROFL.
It would definatly get me out more.. and that can only be a good thing:)
Completely true - if you can see it you can copy it so the saying goes. What ever way they try and stop you with, as long as there is a clean decoded picture infront of your eyes, you can copy it, even if it means filming it off the screen, or getting a paint brush, and drawing the entire thing frame by frame. This may become reality, if they figure out a way to make the transisters in LCDs decrypt data on the fly..:(
...Lets face it, all these formats have been evacuated from the rectum of a bull. DVD, D-VHS, PAL, SECAM, NTSC - All formats that shouldn't be in use, but are. They are crap! Why? in the name of all that is not bull shit, would anyone want a format that won't let you watch something in another country. Why would you wan't to waste money on a decryption system that is useless. is 4GB really that much more than 640MB? no. As for the last three. They are 50 years old for crist sake! why are we still using a format that is 50 years old??? Any child of 5, can get a few compression buzz words, stick it on a disk and think "hey, lets also put some outakes and interviews on, that'll be fun". We need a format that is open, scalable, and high quality, and most of all, protected from tampering with by those bloody corporations.
Ok, lets build one: Disk or Tape? What happened to those new multi-layer disks that were gonna start at 50GB each? gimme one of those. Compression? lets go with mpeg, seeing as everyone else has. Encryption? yes, you can encrypt disks with PGP or whatever. Type in a password to watch, that will stop people looking at the secret spy-work i've been filming, no sorry Holywood, not for you, you can't encrypt anything. Obviously the disks need to be recordable (hmm, or maybe we'll use tape). Put some basic interactivity in -> html, bit of java script, maybe even swf, but nothing that will let anyone take control of your player though. Region encoding? go stick it up your ass, ok, now all we need is some basic file structure, let you include subtitles, multi-sound tracks etc. etc. and we're away, one last thing, lets encode films _at_ 24fps! then watch them, not on tvs, but on decent screens that can actually display 24fps (or double or triple refresh rate or whatever) with out having to either speed the film up (pal) or put it through a NASA supercomputer to do some sort of time-stretching pull-down qauntum magic (ntsc).
Its called Capitalism. You forget, they have the _right_ to sell what is, technically, their property, for as much or as little as they like. They have the right to choose when and where they sell it. And they also have the right to exploit 3rd world childeren to make their products in dangerous and repressive working environments. Since they own the hardware (DVD player whatever) that you bought (oh, whats that? you didn't read the small print?) They also have the right to stop you from modifying it in any way. Now, although they don't technically have the right to change the law, they have got the right to make COUGH donations, to various people who can change the law. Looks like they've got you by the balls lol.
As the saying goes - "America screwed it up... now the rest of the world can live with it":)
If someone keeps a technology secret, thats fine. As long as someone else can develope the same technology and not keep it secret and not worry about beeing sued.
Now you are making up stuff. No person has ever been sued for engaging in normal body functions as a violation of patent law, and none ever will be.
Open source is a cancer that destroys intellectual property and the Internet is used only by terrorists and pedophiles. Shut it down! Shut it all down!
- Signed: the people who patented all the DNA - lol:)
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with this technology, NASA could fake the moon/mars landings again, and this time - get it right! rofl
You could do lots of interesting tricks with this - like changing the cut-off on the z-buffer, so when someone walks away from the camera, it looks like they're walking through a wall.
Instead of making laws, why don't governments simply educate the general population as to how much they are getting ripped off by DVDs, Playstations and Microsoft. If I was in charge I would fund a series of adverts that showed people exactly how much profit these companies make, how cheap it really is to press a CD, and how production costs aren't that high when split over millions of customers.
I would show them how they could live in a world where DVDs could be watched anywhere, where they weren't restricted as to when they could fast-forward, or copy, and how these massive companies bribe governments to restrict freedom. I would introduce them to the idea of operating systems other than Microsoft Windows(R) that were free and open so you couldn't hide malicious code in them.
You would think people would know this already, but you would be surprised how many non-slashdot readers honestly think that it costs _that_much_ to make a DVD, even though the studio has already made a massive box-office profit. People actually don't realise how much they are being ripped off and controlled. They have been completely conditioned.
Obviously I would probably be sued if I had these public-service-announcements made and showen, but thats how the world works.
I don't want to sound analy retentive, but i explaned that in the post:
And don't try to tell me that [production cost]/[expected no. of sales] = the retail price of most new games
Let me explain:
A standard simple model for pricing things is as follows:
[The TOTAL Cost of Production] divided by [How many units you plan to sell] plus [Some resonable profit]
ie. You figure out how much it costs to higher programmers, actors, writers, directors, sets, cameras etc. etc.
You figure out how many people are going to buy it.
Thus you know how much to charge in order to pay the programmers, etc.
This works for films, games, software and real world things like cars, computers and palm pilots. In the case of intellectual property it is special, because the actual production cost is near zero. When you divide the production cost of a game by the number of people that buy it, you see that each person doesn't need to pay anywhere near what they pay now in order for the company to make a profit
Easily explained:
When your completly pissed or stoned to the hills, an 8-bit console with a little mario-sprite looks _amazing_ (or the expression "RAD DUDE!" may apply) while a PS2 or $Box will make you feel like your just watching real lfe.
I got GTA-3 so i could Zap (shoot/beatup) Americans. lol
No but seriously, they charge why to much. Yes, i know entertainment is a non essential item, but all that money for a bit of plastic that costs nothing to press? And don't try to tell me that [production cost]/[expected no. of sales] = the retail price of most new games. People are making profit here that makes the drug market look cheap. I and many others get addicted to games with serious side-effects - joint problems, fatigue, eye problems, social problems, moral issues, not to mention the cost. Kinda makes snorting coke look like an easy ride
Oh no, what a mother f*cking stupid idea. No i'm taking no prisoners on this one. The people who came up with this have too much time and no brian. They are stupid gimps. Probably footballer/jocks. Why? ok WHY!?? in the fu*king name of all that is HOLY? would these stupid gimps want to do this?!? I mean, for crist sake, the CSS HAS BEEN CRACKED YOU IDIOTS. No amount of painting with stupid paint will stop people copying your stupid bits of rip-off plastic onto their computers. DO YOU UNDERSTAND? This is going right to the top of the dumb ideas hall of fame, because i have no time for time wasters who manage to get millions in funding from stupid managers who have no _clue_ how stupid the product is.
I just remember the Computer Stew episode when he tried to turn himseft in for a pirate copy of MS Office. - He tried the BSA, Police, Mayor, Attorey General, and Microsoft. At the end of the program they said something like "And what have we learned today? - If you pirate software, you might just go to jail - yeah, if you have the patience."
No you may not. I don't fall into any of the above categories except maybe girlfriendless :( i like to take my time and get to know a girl, until you come in and sweet-talk all them into going out with you in 5 minutes with your this and that, and then you're a total prick to them, you give guys a bad name. (i'm making a massive assumption here i know). I'm sure you have plenty of time for your girlfriend, unless of course the guys get you out for a drink so you can all go around flirting with others, or there's a game on that you have to spend hours watching, You represent the cave-man fighting mentality of the human race, you judged us [nerds] totally on appearance in your post, what does this say about you? Not only that, but you manage to make money from playing a game involving kicking a ball. Now, don't get me wrong, making money from something totally pointless is an enviable job to have, but it just pisses me off when people just can't see through you guys.
We try to better ourselves and society with art and science, we take interest in our surroundings, and learning as much as we can. Maybe we can't throw a ball half a mile, or smash someones face in, but those are things that society should have evolved through a long time ago.
btw, i have never electricuted anyone in my life, or posted someones internet cache for all the world to see.
If closed source software from an outside developer (ie. windows) is used by a government, surely that leaves room for said developer to hide code in there that could do damage - eg. fake votes, memos etc. you get the idea...
All we need is a decent de-compiler that inteligently looks at the machine code, figures out what it does and produces commented C.. Or, a super monk, who has learned intel machine code off by heart and can translate it. Or maybe a team of low-paid grad students.. Then we can bring Microsoft to their knees lol
It's just the 75 GXP that had the horrible problems. The process for the 60 GXP is different.
Yes, different, not better, the difference is, that the 60 GXP makes an odd "buzz-click, buzz-click" sound about a week or two before it fails. Mine did this but i didn't know what it ment until after it had failed and i had looked in forums & usenet. This is a very useful sound that literally means "back-up all your data now, IBM has sent you a brick" my drive was made in october 2001 and failed about a month later. You should read about the recovery methods people have tried - my fav: "Place your drive in a sealed water-tight bag in dry conditions. Place it in the freezer for a few hours. After you take it out, you will have about 20mins to get your data off before it dies for good."
Thankyou for proving my point. He was not being nice, he was tring to screw you over by making you lower your defences. They are trained in this. I won't even comment on the quote :)
Why don't drive manufactures just make them like this in the first place. If i had to choose between buying to identical drives, but one had a window, i'd go for the window every time. (Except ofcourse if it was an IBM drive, then i would laugh at it and pitty any poor sod who paid good money for it.
Here are some other good HD mods:
*If you have an IBM deskstar 60 or 75 GXP, hook a mini microphone up inside the case, near the drive. Connect it to an amp/speakers, and voila: A handy drive monitor that will let you hear the "buzz click" sound that means your drive has a week before it fails and turns into a brick
*If you have an IBM deskstar 60 or 75 GXP, drill a small hole in your case, run the ide/power cable through. Next get a cardboard box with some air vents. Put your drive in an antistatic bag, bubble rap and some foam, place it in the box, plug it in. Now, when your drive fails next month, you don't even have to open the case, just write the returns number on the box and ship it back to IBM.
*If you have an IBM deskstar 60 or 75 GXP, use it to practice dangerous window modding, and then when it goes wrong, claim that the insane clicking noises made you do it...
*If you have an IBM deskstar 60 or 75 GXP, congratulations - you will soon be the proud owner of a paper-weight.
So are the 60GXP, mine failed after a month loosing 40GB of data (How am i supposed to back up 40GB?) IBM are basterds, kill them all.
This is totally off-topic, but i need some IBM bashing.
Some users are genuine and want to learn. But, IMHO _All_ footballer/jocks (with no exception) who even come within a 50m radius of you regardless of if or not they are using a computer, should be electricuted (but kept alive) and locked in a storage room while you print out copies of their browsers' history containing such interesting sites as red-hot-cheerleaders.com (if the history is clean, fake it) and post it up for all the world to see (including their girlfriends). They should then be stoned to death with footballs from your homemade catapult.
This is probably off-topic, but i think i can swing it through with the 'be nice to your users' comment
no, the uk doesn't count
Yeah, someone heard the "buzz, click, buzz, click" sound and suddenly a partition containing windows and solitare corrupted. The astronaughts had to spend 6 hours without that game, (until someone remembered the russian tetris backup)
Well, atleast now NASA themselves will be behind the IBM lawsuit
The mix of systems isn't necessarily a bad thing since each system was (ostensibly) chosen for its particular task
:)
oh, and which important task was windows 95 chosen for: solitare or minesweeper?
Bush join with other countries??!!! HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAA ROFL!!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OH GOD STOP! I CAN'T OH OH HAAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHAHHAAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAAHAA HA HA haaaaaaaa, sigh... haa... ahhh... ok, ok, i'm ok, i can breath again.. wow, I don't know if you were being sarcastic but you should get modded up 5 funny.. Bush wouldn't join with other countries if the world depended on it lol. As far as he is concerned, every country on your list is an enemy. Although, maybe i can see him colonising - the way he would see it is America 0w3ning the universe. I think we have a few problems down here to solve, before we go fu*king up other planets.
Out of crap ideas like region encoding, selling mp3s and cuecat, finally comes an excellent one.
:)
You would need to release schematics/open source software, so that anyone could make one, even after they were banned. You could probably stick a wireless card in a notebook or PDA and use some software straight off
I'm sure it would create lots of new cultural events: like groups of kids hanging around some bum on a street corner trading files instead of drugs lol, and you could just imagine the stake-outs the police would do: you've just finished swapping fils when suddenly "POLICE! FREEZE!! DOWN ON THE GROUND" (they start beating you with their sticks) "Your under arrest for copy-right infringement, possesion of, and intent to supply" You see, the files you just swapped were on a police decoy. They tracked you device with triangulation, and right now, their checking it to see if it has the dummy police file on it. Your going down. Then there would be the crowds "Oh my god, someone has some hot pr0n" "where where???" "everyone go to the park, quick, theres someone with some _hot_ pr0n!!" 5 mins later you take off your headphones, look up from your newspaper, and 500 people are standing around you ROFL.
It would definatly get me out more.. and that can only be a good thing
They do - in china (i think) make regionless players much to the annoyance of Holywood
Completely true - if you can see it you can copy it so the saying goes. What ever way they try and stop you with, as long as there is a clean decoded picture infront of your eyes, you can copy it, even if it means filming it off the screen, or getting a paint brush, and drawing the entire thing frame by frame. This may become reality, if they figure out a way to make the transisters in LCDs decrypt data on the fly.. :(
...Lets face it, all these formats have been evacuated from the rectum of a bull. DVD, D-VHS, PAL, SECAM, NTSC - All formats that shouldn't be in use, but are. They are crap! Why? in the name of all that is not bull shit, would anyone want a format that won't let you watch something in another country. Why would you wan't to waste money on a decryption system that is useless. is 4GB really that much more than 640MB? no. As for the last three. They are 50 years old for crist sake! why are we still using a format that is 50 years old??? Any child of 5, can get a few compression buzz words, stick it on a disk and think "hey, lets also put some outakes and interviews on, that'll be fun". We need a format that is open, scalable, and high quality, and most of all, protected from tampering with by those bloody corporations.
Ok, lets build one: Disk or Tape? What happened to those new multi-layer disks that were gonna start at 50GB each? gimme one of those. Compression? lets go with mpeg, seeing as everyone else has. Encryption? yes, you can encrypt disks with PGP or whatever. Type in a password to watch, that will stop people looking at the secret spy-work i've been filming, no sorry Holywood, not for you, you can't encrypt anything. Obviously the disks need to be recordable (hmm, or maybe we'll use tape). Put some basic interactivity in -> html, bit of java script, maybe even swf, but nothing that will let anyone take control of your player though. Region encoding? go stick it up your ass, ok, now all we need is some basic file structure, let you include subtitles, multi-sound tracks etc. etc. and we're away, one last thing, lets encode films _at_ 24fps! then watch them, not on tvs, but on decent screens that can actually display 24fps (or double or triple refresh rate or whatever) with out having to either speed the film up (pal) or put it through a NASA supercomputer to do some sort of time-stretching pull-down qauntum magic (ntsc).
Its called Capitalism. You forget, they have the _right_ to sell what is, technically, their property, for as much or as little as they like. They have the right to choose when and where they sell it. And they also have the right to exploit 3rd world childeren to make their products in dangerous and repressive working environments. Since they own the hardware (DVD player whatever) that you bought (oh, whats that? you didn't read the small print?) They also have the right to stop you from modifying it in any way. Now, although they don't technically have the right to change the law, they have got the right to make COUGH donations, to various people who can change the law. Looks like they've got you by the balls lol.
:)
As the saying goes - "America screwed it up... now the rest of the world can live with it"
If someone keeps a technology secret, thats fine. As long as someone else can develope the same technology and not keep it secret and not worry about beeing sued.
Now you are making up stuff. No person has ever been sued for engaging in normal body functions as a violation of patent law, and none ever will be.
Don't be too sure
Open source is a cancer that destroys intellectual property and the Internet is used only by terrorists and pedophiles. Shut it down! Shut it all down!
:)
- Signed: the people who patented all the DNA - lol