Oh come on. This story is sooo old. Carbon has had the capability to be released in Asia since it was created. I mean jeez!! take a look here you'll see what I mean.
At McMaster U. (Hamilton, ON, CA) they use a program called ResX. Think of KaZaA (in fact, suspiciously EXACTLY like Kazaa...) except it only works on the LAN. Think DivX DVD-rips in 40 seconds, 5-meg MP3s in 3 seconds. Now that's tasty.
McMaster actually paid a company to write a Kazaa-clone that would only work on the LAN. It was cheaper than bandwith-shaping the Internet pipe. However, I doubt all universities will do this.
My recommendation to you is to find other P2P people and set up a Direct Connect hub or something similar. Make it only avaialbe to people within the university.
TTT Theatrical Cut FOTR Theatrical Cut re-release to match TTT packaging TTT Special Extended FOTR Special Extended re-release to match TTT packaging
ROTK Theatrical Cut FOTR Theatrical Cut re-release to match ROTK packaging TTT Theatrical Cut re-release to match ROTK packaging ROTK Special Extended FOTR Special Extended re-release to match ROTK packaging TTT Special Extended re-release to match ROTK packaging
Box-Set of All Three Theatrical Cuts Box-Set of All Three Special Extended Editions
Not to mention various gift sets. Hahaha, I love movies:)
There's no way pricing per connected pc will work unless the FTC lets the big guys monopolize broadband (and if they did that, they'd probably 'proprietary'ize it as well). It just doesn't make sense. If they want to bill 'per pc connected', they need to define some things.
Definition of connected(yes or no to these items):
My laptop which I occasionally plug into my router
10 friends who come over for a lanparty
My pda when browsing via usb via my broadband connection?
Defenition of PC (yes or no to these items): Router Hub Linux PC functioning solely as a router Webserver GameServer Console Game Systems WiFi Access points
It doesn't make sense. Cable and DSL companies need to come up with a new model. How about this unoriginal thought, "Price it according to cost and overhead".
Here's my guide:) For all below, you need to mark it up x% for your current overhead (estimating your revenue) and perhaps even farther to grow your infastructure (if your business is healthy). Charge your cost for tech support! (When it's not the ISP's fault) Charge people to set up their accounts (most already do)
Webhosting is an extra charge at cost (you can't compete with the big and/or free guys; why try) Email is an extra charge at cost (see above) News is an extra charge at cost (see above) Charge cost for IP's Charge for dynamic IP's by the minute (should equal = the cost for a static IP per minute). Let users who aren't on 24x7 share their dynamic ip with others so you don't have to have as many. You could charge less at non peak times. Don't get greedy! I'm spoiled at the moment with a ~1500Kb up / 1000Kb down connection for $30 a month with a static IP and 4 to 5 machines on it. I upload ~12GB per day (gigabytes). I really wonder how much this bandwidth costs the ISP (ignoring overhead).
I'm still waiting for any audio codec that lets me encode more than 2 channels. I just read the Vorbis FAQ and can see nothing there. This could be one way that they could get an advantage over DIVX or MPEG-4... they could be the only file format to include options for, say, 6.1 discrete channels of downloadable, streamable, audio. More and more computers have surround sounds now. Thoughts?
Lousy wrong password. Disregard the anonymous post (I want the karma:) )
Yes, but the problem is that we all know the real drain on the backbone is P2P... and either
(a) The internet provider is the content provider, or
(b) The internet provider fears the content provider.
They will never set up Direct Connect (Gnutella, etc.) servers for Cogeco (or whatever) users only (much as I would love to see that happen). Perhaps a grass-roots effort would be more effective?
And if they could relay it to the ground from a sub, without running a new fibre, we would be sending transoceanic signals wirelessly, now, wouldn't we?:) It seems to me they'll have to do it close to the shore in order to run a fibre to somewhere where the heavy computing power can be set up. -Cruz
My name's Geoff Olynyk (currently 18 yrs old). I did almost the same thing as a science project three years ago, and last year...(see hereand here.
I used blast furnace slag (magnesium and calcium sulphides and oxides, mostly) and reacted it a 6-tank vessel I built in my garage. I knew about this thing at Los Alamos and thought it was the coolest thing ever that I was doing the same research as the guys that built the first nuke.
Open Internet Explorer (I know this works in 5.0 and 6.0) and go to www.cracks.am, (wait for the popups to close), and go to download any of the cracks... an ActiveX control pops up, with the misleading name of Download_Plugin.exe.
If you run this, it modifies windows Explorer and Internet Explorer (maybe they're the same thing now?) to pop up porn ads every couple of minutes, and replaces all of your bookmarks and buttons. My friend got caught doing this. Luckily I use Opera (faster anyway).
Okay, this is getting a little bit sick. She was 12 years old in Leon (aka Professional)... can you imagine reading stuff like this that people write about you? I know this is an unpopular viewpoint, but, seriously, can you keep it off a public board, where people can identify you?
Here's reasons why I wouldn't:
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Well, this might not be the best place to say stuff like this, but here goes:
I always feel a bit, I don't know, weird, when I play games too much. Like I'm wasting my time. I feel the same way about TV (but at least TV is mainstream enough that everyone is watching too much). Regardless of industry sales, etc., in my age group (OAC... that's grade 13 in Ontario) at least, among MOST people, it is unusual to play for more then 1 hour each day on any console or computer (ICQ is a different story...). If I were to play for more then that (and I usually play for less, all I ever play is Diablo II as I can't stand firstperson shooters, but that's a different story) then I feel kind of like I've wasted a lot of time.
If I were to pay for such a service, then I would be caught, because I would want to use it more to get my money's worth, and then less, because I'm wasting my time.
Other people have brought up good points. All these things I have said really just are me. Even if I could overcome all of that, I would definetely need extra advantages over current systems of online play. The limit of my online play involves Starcraft and Brood war (not anymore) diablo I (not anymore, and even when it was new it was so screwed up from cheats that it was unplayable) and now, Diablo II [wow, I'm quite the Blizzard fan]. You'd need cheat monitoring, and definetly not have to pay for it in the store... that's what the monthly fee is for. That went on too long.
...where the object is to be excited about the new theorem/method/sampling technique without mentioning any details about how it works... I always get a laugh when I see things like "Our theory - which is based on a lot of beautiful new mathematics". I can just imagine the reporter: "tell us about your new mathematical theorem without mentioning anything at all about how it works!"
The Brownian ratchets don't work... in the July 2001 issue they explained why it doesn't break the second law of thermodynamics:)
There is exactly enough heat (random motion of molecules) that hits the central pivot that knocks it out of it ratchet and back a space that it cancels out the motion. Sorry, no free energy.
Jeez, that's the monopoly fee, didn't you know? They landed on DSL Service, Local Phone Service, and Cable Service, and have now appeared to have built hotels on all...
Jeez, do you know what you've done? We've almost slashdotted C|NET... You hear that? That's the sound of 500,000 slashdotters downloading AdAware from ftp.ind.net -- GAWD, it's slow.
You know what, the coming era of DRM is not really going to be that bad. Let me explain...
First of all, I want to get one thing straight. Stealing music is illegal. Whether you disagree with the compensation given to the musicians or whatever, when you steal an MP3, they get nothing. The general consensus on/. has been that the people here do not use MP3 (or whatever) file format for pirating music (whether they are lying or not, I don't know).
Such that this is, I think that Digital Rights Managment, properly implemented, could be a great thing. This article gives a good overview of how it might be implemented. Basically, it organizes information into a WORK, an EXPRESSION of that work, a MANIFESTATION of that expression, and an ITEM as a part of that manifestation. For example (the example they give on the page) the work could be The Name of The Rose by Umberto Eco. The expressions of that work could include the original, an english translation, etc. The manifestations, say, of the english translation expression could be the book and the book-on-tape. The items of the "book manifestation" could include an actual hardcover book or an e-version from some website.
When you buy something, you have digital rights for either the work or any of the sub-levels. Owning the rights to the expression (the english translation) would get you all of the manifestations and items below that. Of course, most people would only own rights to one or a couple "items".
Now, the main problem with this is that DRM-protected files won't work on legacy hardware. I agree that this is a big problem. (You hear! I agree!) But, I'm interested to hear, discounting this problem, would DRM really be so bad according to you all? If you bought a car-stereo, a portable stereo, a home stereo, and computer running LinuxDRM (or WindowsDRM), and they were all registered to you, you could buy "Metallica - Master of Puppets (Live with the San Francisco Orchestra).DRM.mp3" and it would run on all your DRM-registered items. If you sold one of those stereos, the new owner would want to change the registration in order to play his MP3s, and you could keep copies on everything you want. You could keep backups on every stinking computer in North America, as they would only work for things registered to you.
Now, I can see a couple of problems right away. Hackers would crack the DRM in about 20 seconds from the first one landing in St. Petersburg, and this would be much easier to implement with a central registration system (which in my opinion is unacceptable, but there are ways around it). Any other thoughts?
Wow, that went a lot longer than I thought it would. Note that all opinions are mine and I take responsibility for them.
Slashdot's gonna be getting an email from the government saying that Carnivore has picked up a headline that they think links Slashdot with coke dealers:
I apologise. I accidentally posted this anonymously... Please disregard that other one.
This is crazy -- read this -- I love how they call it "features":)
My favourite parts:
Improved Revocation: Windows Media Rights Manager enables the revocation of compromised players when new players become available.
Hmmm.... so in other words, if somebody somewhere in Russia cracks GenericTrustedPlayer2002, and MS decides they don't like that program anymore... poof!
Secure Audio Path: Rights Manager ensures content protection in the operating system from the player to the sound card driver in Microsoft Windows® Millennium Edition and Microsoft Windows XP. This secure relationship reduces the likelihood that any unauthorized program will capture a digital media stream within a PC.
Funny, they didn't mention it on the back of the box as a feature... Luckily, I don't have a problem as I can currently choose not to use secure formats... wonder how long that will last?
Easy-to-Change Licensing Terms: Because licenses and digital media files are stored separately, licensing terms can be changed on the server, without needing to redistribute or repackagethe digital media file.
My personal favourite. From what I've heard from MS business licences, they should have that ® symbol after "Easy-To-Change Licensing Terms", but I don't know much about that. All I know is that this "feature" allows people to change the cost of my DRM-ed rented movies while I've still got them! Great!
I really don't want to take the unpopular viewpoint here, but...
1) What gives you the right to say what people should and shouldn't listen to? I'm sure you want freedom to listen to bands and musicians that are currently stifled for whatever reason... so you should respect others freedom to listen to whatever they want. A situation in which "popular" (and I agree, their popularity is a synthetic product of advertising, not merit) musicians got the same exposure as indie artists would be fair, and then people could decide what they wanted to listen to.
2) Not everything on the radio is bad! (Even top 40 stuff!) I don't know if it's just me, but I like a lot of things I hear on the radio. Granted, I can't stand Britney Spears (especially that new one... it doesn't even have a melody... the one where she gets licked in the video). However, songs like "Drive" by Incubus, "Moola Moola" by Jordy Birch, "Family Affair" by Mary J. Blige -- all of these are songs I like, and all could be considered "mainstream" to the utmost sense of the word. If I couldn't get that music, I would actually be missing out on some things that I like. That is not good.
So, although I would like to see more exposure for my favorite bands (Reel Big Fish, Less Than Jake) in the mainstream, I don't think its fair to say "Ban all top 40-style music!!".
Kind of like this? Look at the principal award winner. Even better, he's Canadian...
(Don't mean to brag, well maybe I do, but incidentally, look at the bottom of the page at Young Canadian Innovation Award winners... the second one is me.)
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At McMaster U. (Hamilton, ON, CA) they use a program called ResX. Think of KaZaA (in fact, suspiciously EXACTLY like Kazaa...) except it only works on the LAN. Think DivX DVD-rips in 40 seconds, 5-meg MP3s in 3 seconds. Now that's tasty.
McMaster actually paid a company to write a Kazaa-clone that would only work on the LAN. It was cheaper than bandwith-shaping the Internet pipe. However, I doubt all universities will do this.
My recommendation to you is to find other P2P people and set up a Direct Connect hub or something similar. Make it only avaialbe to people within the university.
Good luck!
-cruz
FOTR Theatrical Cut
FOTR Special Extended
TTT Theatrical Cut
FOTR Theatrical Cut re-release to match TTT packaging
TTT Special Extended
FOTR Special Extended re-release to match TTT packaging
ROTK Theatrical Cut
:)
FOTR Theatrical Cut re-release to match ROTK packaging
TTT Theatrical Cut re-release to match ROTK packaging
ROTK Special Extended
FOTR Special Extended re-release to match ROTK packaging
TTT Special Extended re-release to match ROTK packaging
Box-Set of All Three Theatrical Cuts
Box-Set of All Three Special Extended Editions
Not to mention various gift sets. Hahaha, I love movies
Uh, yeah. Let's try this:
:) For all below, you need to mark it up x% for your current overhead (estimating your revenue) and perhaps even farther to grow your infastructure (if your business is healthy). Charge your cost for tech support! (When it's not the ISP's fault) Charge people to set up their accounts (most already do)
There's no way pricing per connected pc will work unless the FTC lets the big guys monopolize broadband (and if they did that, they'd probably 'proprietary'ize it as well). It just doesn't make sense. If they want to bill 'per pc connected', they need to define some things.
Definition of connected(yes or no to these items):
My laptop which I occasionally plug into my router
10 friends who come over for a lanparty
My pda when browsing via usb via my broadband connection?
Defenition of PC (yes or no to these items):
Router
Hub
Linux
PC functioning solely as a router
Webserver
GameServer
Console Game Systems
WiFi Access points
It doesn't make sense. Cable and DSL companies need to come up with a new model. How about this unoriginal thought, "Price it according to cost and overhead".
Here's my guide
Webhosting is an extra charge at cost (you can't compete with the big and/or free guys; why try) Email is an extra charge at cost (see above) News is an extra charge at cost (see above) Charge cost for IP's Charge for dynamic IP's by the minute (should equal = the cost for a static IP per minute). Let users who aren't on 24x7 share their dynamic ip with others so you don't have to have as many. You could charge less at non peak times. Don't get greedy! I'm spoiled at the moment with a ~1500Kb up / 1000Kb down connection for $30 a month with a static IP and 4 to 5 machines on it. I upload ~12GB per day (gigabytes). I really wonder how much this bandwidth costs the ISP (ignoring overhead).
I'm still waiting for any audio codec that lets me encode more than 2 channels. I just read the Vorbis FAQ and can see nothing there. This could be one way that they could get an advantage over DIVX or MPEG-4... they could be the only file format to include options for, say, 6.1 discrete channels of downloadable, streamable, audio. More and more computers have surround sounds now. Thoughts?
Lousy wrong password. Disregard the anonymous post (I want the karma :) )
Yes, but the problem is that we all know the real drain on the backbone is P2P... and either
(a) The internet provider is the content provider, or
(b) The internet provider fears the content provider.
They will never set up Direct Connect (Gnutella, etc.) servers for Cogeco (or whatever) users only (much as I would love to see that happen). Perhaps a grass-roots effort would be more effective?
And if they could relay it to the ground from a sub, without running a new fibre, we would be sending transoceanic signals wirelessly, now, wouldn't we? :) It seems to me they'll have to do it close to the shore in order to run a fibre to somewhere where the heavy computing power can be set up.
-Cruz
I was wondering when we'd stop seeing
:)
-Cruz
Instant-On + Windows XP = Rap + Music or Military + Intelligence
-Cruz
I used blast furnace slag (magnesium and calcium sulphides and oxides, mostly) and reacted it a 6-tank vessel I built in my garage. I knew about this thing at Los Alamos and thought it was the coolest thing ever that I was doing the same research as the guys that built the first nuke.
-Cruz
If you run this, it modifies windows Explorer and Internet Explorer (maybe they're the same thing now?) to pop up porn ads every couple of minutes, and replaces all of your bookmarks and buttons. My friend got caught doing this. Luckily I use Opera (faster anyway).
-Cruz
Okay, this is getting a little bit sick. She was 12 years old in Leon (aka Professional)... can you imagine reading stuff like this that people write about you? I know this is an unpopular viewpoint, but, seriously, can you keep it off a public board, where people can identify you?
I always feel a bit, I don't know, weird, when I play games too much. Like I'm wasting my time. I feel the same way about TV (but at least TV is mainstream enough that everyone is watching too much). Regardless of industry sales, etc., in my age group (OAC... that's grade 13 in Ontario) at least, among MOST people, it is unusual to play for more then 1 hour each day on any console or computer (ICQ is a different story...). If I were to play for more then that (and I usually play for less, all I ever play is Diablo II as I can't stand firstperson shooters, but that's a different story) then I feel kind of like I've wasted a lot of time.
If I were to pay for such a service, then I would be caught, because I would want to use it more to get my money's worth, and then less, because I'm wasting my time.
Other people have brought up good points. All these things I have said really just are me. Even if I could overcome all of that, I would definetely need extra advantages over current systems of online play. The limit of my online play involves Starcraft and Brood war (not anymore) diablo I (not anymore, and even when it was new it was so screwed up from cheats that it was unplayable) and now, Diablo II [wow, I'm quite the Blizzard fan]. You'd need cheat monitoring, and definetly not have to pay for it in the store... that's what the monthly fee is for. That went on too long.
Later
Sgs-Cruz
...where the object is to be excited about the new theorem/method/sampling technique without mentioning any details about how it works... I always get a laugh when I see things like "Our theory - which is based on a lot of beautiful new mathematics". I can just imagine the reporter: "tell us about your new mathematical theorem without mentioning anything at all about how it works!"
There is exactly enough heat (random motion of molecules) that hits the central pivot that knocks it out of it ratchet and back a space that it cancels out the motion. Sorry, no free energy.
-Cruz
but it doesn't even have a floppy drive!
Jeez, that's the monopoly fee, didn't you know? They landed on DSL Service, Local Phone Service, and Cable Service, and have now appeared to have built hotels on all...
Jeez, do you know what you've done? We've almost slashdotted C|NET... You hear that? That's the sound of 500,000 slashdotters downloading AdAware from ftp.ind.net -- GAWD, it's slow.
First of all, I want to get one thing straight. Stealing music is illegal. Whether you disagree with the compensation given to the musicians or whatever, when you steal an MP3, they get nothing. The general consensus on
Such that this is, I think that Digital Rights Managment, properly implemented, could be a great thing. This article gives a good overview of how it might be implemented. Basically, it organizes information into a WORK, an EXPRESSION of that work, a MANIFESTATION of that expression, and an ITEM as a part of that manifestation. For example (the example they give on the page) the work could be The Name of The Rose by Umberto Eco. The expressions of that work could include the original, an english translation, etc. The manifestations, say, of the english translation expression could be the book and the book-on-tape. The items of the "book manifestation" could include an actual hardcover book or an e-version from some website.
When you buy something, you have digital rights for either the work or any of the sub-levels. Owning the rights to the expression (the english translation) would get you all of the manifestations and items below that. Of course, most people would only own rights to one or a couple "items".
Now, the main problem with this is that DRM-protected files won't work on legacy hardware. I agree that this is a big problem. (You hear! I agree!) But, I'm interested to hear, discounting this problem, would DRM really be so bad according to you all? If you bought a car-stereo, a portable stereo, a home stereo, and computer running LinuxDRM (or WindowsDRM), and they were all registered to you, you could buy "Metallica - Master of Puppets (Live with the San Francisco Orchestra).DRM.mp3" and it would run on all your DRM-registered items. If you sold one of those stereos, the new owner would want to change the registration in order to play his MP3s, and you could keep copies on everything you want. You could keep backups on every stinking computer in North America, as they would only work for things registered to you.
Now, I can see a couple of problems right away. Hackers would crack the DRM in about 20 seconds from the first one landing in St. Petersburg, and this would be much easier to implement with a central registration system (which in my opinion is unacceptable, but there are ways around it). Any other thoughts?
Wow, that went a lot longer than I thought it would. Note that all opinions are mine and I take responsibility for them.
-Cruz
Warning...
heh heh ~~ Cruz2001
This is crazy -- read this -- I love how they call it "features" :)
My favourite parts:
Hmmm.... so in other words, if somebody somewhere in Russia cracks GenericTrustedPlayer2002, and MS decides they don't like that program anymore... poof!Funny, they didn't mention it on the back of the box as a feature... Luckily, I don't have a problem as I can currently choose not to use secure formats... wonder how long that will last?
My personal favourite. From what I've heard from MS business licences, they should have that ® symbol after "Easy-To-Change Licensing Terms", but I don't know much about that. All I know is that this "feature" allows people to change the cost of my DRM-ed rented movies while I've still got them! Great!
-Cruz
-Cruz
What, you mean like make an automated vote-bot and spam the poll? Kind of like the forum goons at somethingawful.com did?
-Cruz
1) What gives you the right to say what people should and shouldn't listen to? I'm sure you want freedom to listen to bands and musicians that are currently stifled for whatever reason... so you should respect others freedom to listen to whatever they want. A situation in which "popular" (and I agree, their popularity is a synthetic product of advertising, not merit) musicians got the same exposure as indie artists would be fair, and then people could decide what they wanted to listen to.
2) Not everything on the radio is bad! (Even top 40 stuff!) I don't know if it's just me, but I like a lot of things I hear on the radio. Granted, I can't stand Britney Spears (especially that new one... it doesn't even have a melody... the one where she gets licked in the video). However, songs like "Drive" by Incubus, "Moola Moola" by Jordy Birch, "Family Affair" by Mary J. Blige -- all of these are songs I like, and all could be considered "mainstream" to the utmost sense of the word. If I couldn't get that music, I would actually be missing out on some things that I like. That is not good.
So, although I would like to see more exposure for my favorite bands (Reel Big Fish, Less Than Jake) in the mainstream, I don't think its fair to say "Ban all top 40-style music!!".
--- Cruz
Kind of like this? Look at the principal award winner. Even better, he's Canadian...
(Don't mean to brag, well maybe I do, but incidentally, look at the bottom of the page at Young Canadian Innovation Award winners... the second one is me.)