Hmmm... the bill states that no person can offer for INTERSTATE commerce a device that has had the copy-prevention technology "castrated" from the device...
I live in good 'ole New Hampshire --- does this mean that I can sell non SSSCA/whatever-compliant computers, but only to people who live in NH?
VHS or Beta? Tape or LaserDisc? Tape, LaserDisc or DVD? Tape or DVD? Letterbox or Pan&Scan (never a problem for me here...)? Standard or HD? Red or Blue laser? 480 or 1080?
Wife: I got that copy of _The Matrix_ you wanted... Husband: Honey, you got the wrong one? Wide: Whatd'ya mean? It says "The Matrix" right on it!!!
They're the only one who are sending me regular postal mail. Everyone else is sending mail to my mailbox I just keep for spam... that only gets checked once a month or so, or whenever I sign up for anything that needs a "valid email address." Since this address is the one thats in my WHOIS data, that's the only mailbox that gets spammed.
-Rick ..."Wow... that last lightning was really clo%$#&%^ NO CARRIER"
Reminds me of the 80s. Remember when you booted up your favorite game on the Commodore 64 and before the game started, you would get a "intro screen" saying that the game was "cracked" by the 1001 crew, Eagle Soft, etc with music and animations... ? I wonder how long it is before we see something like this on MP3s.
I can't wait for the day when I hit the play button on WinAmp and the first thing you hear is "This MP3 was cracked by "The Hormone"" before the N'Sync music starts....
But then again, I can't stand N'Sync, so I guess I'm safe.
If Microsoft was forced to donate copies of Red Hat Linux for those old computers...
-RickTheWizKid
That's why they're not bringing it to the US
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IIRC, the Panasonic player was not going to come to the US - it was going to be a Japan-only item.
If this is in fact the case, I would imagine that the Panasonic device will be designed from the ground up not to be able to play US discs. (Firmware notes that it is an 80mm disc and refuses to boot it since it knows that all the games in Japan are "normal sized" discs).
What we REALLY need is a software device to allow consoles to provide basic word processing etc. functionality. Instead of having to pay $300 for a game system and $2000 for a computer - why not simply create a $150 hardware and software combo to allow your Gamecube/playstation/dreamcast/nes/whatever to be a wordprocessor for kids to use in school.
C'mon... dont you love standing in line at the stores arguing with the salespeople about your unwanted gifts?
I imagine this would work, but I would want to see something in my hands before I say I don't like it. For some things it would be good, like computer type stuff - like the time my family got me the mac version of a computer game - when I had a PC. However, for most non-techie type stuff people would probably want to hold something in their hands.
As long as the chip uses a Microsoft OS, I'm okay with the chip. It will crash so often that nobody would be able to get any information out of it.
(Scenerio)
Police: Sir, I need to scan your ID chip.
[attempts to scan chip and fails]
Police: Uhhh for some reason, I am getting a blue screen of some sort on my reader. I knew they shouldn't have used Windows on these things!
So next up are they going to order Washington University to shut down for making wu-ftpd available? That's software that lets people download music files too
No, what will happen is they are going to order Verizon, MSN, AOL, etc to shut down becuase they allow people to download music files over their networks.
RickTheWizkid ..."Wow! That lightning was really clo$#%^$# NO CARRIER"
The idea here is not to teach kids a particular OS or software that happens to be the latest fad in computers. What is needed is to teach the kids the theory of how a computer works. This is how I learned... When I was first starting school (1982!) we had back then the top of the line Apple II computers - that we had to learn how to load with a cassette tape! To this day, the concept of "loading an application into memory" has not changed - be it with tapes, floppy disks, cd-roms, etc. The same goes for the concept of a "file" - A file is a file is a file, be it on an Apple II, a PC, a Linux box, or even a Kaypro II - and at a young age (6) - I was able to understand the concept of a word processor file being different than a, say, database file.
My 5th grade teacher had a great way of teaching us how computers worked - that is - the theory of how they worked - by having us use different applications such as AppleWorks, Bank Street Writer, and AppleWriter, we were able to understand the concept of using a "word processor" and able to deal with the concept of saving a file, printing, etc... rather than simply knowing that "to get a paper copy of what you are doing, press Open-Apple-P" By being introduced to the concepts of what we were doing rather than being trained to be button-pushers, we learned a lot more about computers. This trend has reversed itself in recent years though. Now, students are forced to do things "one way" on the computer - only use one brand of word processor, etc. Any student that shows the least bit of problem-solving ability or interest in what's going on other than what the teachers "want" you to see is immediately declared a "hacker" (in a bad sense)... one person my sister (who is still in high school) told me about got suspended for HAVING WINDOWS PRINT TO THE PRINTER OTHER THAN THE DEFAULT PRINTER - that is, to say the student wanted to print whatever was on the screen to a different printer than the one that was set up as the default.
Why is this? Kids should be encouraged to understand the concept of what "networking" provides, rather than hiding the innards of the operating system from students.
Or are today's schools merely trying to educate kids to be more compliant with laws such as the DMCA?
There was a network that had no strings
and Boingo was its name-o!
B O I N G O
B O I N G O
B O I N G O
and Boingo was its name-o!
BTW: Is it "it's" or "its" here?
-Rick
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Hmmm... the bill states that no person can offer for INTERSTATE commerce a device that has had the copy-prevention technology "castrated" from the device...
I live in good 'ole New Hampshire --- does this mean that I can sell non SSSCA/whatever-compliant computers, but only to people who live in NH?
-RickTheWizKid
VHS or Beta?
Tape or LaserDisc?
Tape, LaserDisc or DVD?
Tape or DVD?
Letterbox or Pan&Scan (never a problem for me here...)?
Standard or HD?
Red or Blue laser?
480 or 1080?
Wife: I got that copy of _The Matrix_ you wanted...
Husband: Honey, you got the wrong one?
Wide: Whatd'ya mean? It says "The Matrix" right on it!!!
They're the only one who are sending me regular postal mail. Everyone else is sending mail to my mailbox I just keep for spam... that only gets checked once a month or so, or whenever I sign up for anything that needs a "valid email address." Since this address is the one thats in my WHOIS data, that's the only mailbox that gets spammed.
-Rick
..."Wow... that last lightning was really clo%$#&%^ NO CARRIER"
... is a bewolf cluster of spamfilters...
Okay, so it was funnier before I typed it...
Reminds me of the 80s. Remember when you booted up your favorite game on the Commodore 64 and before the game started, you would get a "intro screen" saying that the game was "cracked" by the 1001 crew, Eagle Soft, etc with music and animations ... ? I wonder how long it is before we see something like this on MP3s.
I can't wait for the day when I hit the play button on WinAmp and the first thing you hear is "This MP3 was cracked by "The Hormone"" before the N'Sync music starts....
But then again, I can't stand N'Sync, so I guess I'm safe.
-RickTheWizKid
to the term "crashing your computer..."
"But officer, I was only trying to reboot linux..."
-RickTheWizKid
If Microsoft was forced to donate copies of Red Hat Linux for those old computers...
-RickTheWizKid
IIRC, the Panasonic player was not going to come to the US - it was going to be a Japan-only item.
If this is in fact the case, I would imagine that the Panasonic device will be designed from the ground up not to be able to play US discs. (Firmware notes that it is an 80mm disc and refuses to boot it since it knows that all the games in Japan are "normal sized" discs).
What we REALLY need is a software device to allow consoles to provide basic word processing etc. functionality. Instead of having to pay $300 for a game system and $2000 for a computer - why not simply create a $150 hardware and software combo to allow your Gamecube/playstation/dreamcast/nes/whatever to be a wordprocessor for kids to use in school.
Just an idea I had for a while...
-RickTheWizKid
It thinks I am in minnesota. I am really in SE New Hampshire.
At least it got the right country.
-RickTheWizKid
C'mon... dont you love standing in line at the stores arguing with the salespeople about your unwanted gifts?
I imagine this would work, but I would want to see something in my hands before I say I don't like it. For some things it would be good, like computer type stuff - like the time my family got me the mac version of a computer game - when I had a PC. However, for most non-techie type stuff people would probably want to hold something in their hands.
Just my thoughts...
-RickTheWizKid, disgruntled retail manager.
As long as the chip uses a Microsoft OS, I'm okay with the chip. It will crash so often that nobody would be able to get any information out of it.
(Scenerio)
Police: Sir, I need to scan your ID chip.
[attempts to scan chip and fails]
Police: Uhhh for some reason, I am getting a blue screen of some sort on my reader. I knew they shouldn't have used Windows on these things!
-RickTheWizKid
Ford is now the owner of "wegotfuckedby2600.com"
So next up are they going to order Washington University to shut down for making wu-ftpd available? That's software that lets people download music files too
..."Wow! That lightning was really clo$#%^$# NO CARRIER"
No, what will happen is they are going to order Verizon, MSN, AOL, etc to shut down becuase they allow people to download music files over their networks.
RickTheWizkid
The idea here is not to teach kids a particular OS or software that happens to be the latest fad in computers. What is needed is to teach the kids the theory of how a computer works. This is how I learned... When I was first starting school (1982!) we had back then the top of the line Apple II computers - that we had to learn how to load with a cassette tape! To this day, the concept of "loading an application into memory" has not changed - be it with tapes, floppy disks, cd-roms, etc. The same goes for the concept of a "file" - A file is a file is a file, be it on an Apple II, a PC, a Linux box, or even a Kaypro II - and at a young age (6) - I was able to understand the concept of a word processor file being different than a, say, database file.
My 5th grade teacher had a great way of teaching us how computers worked - that is - the theory of how they worked - by having us use different applications such as AppleWorks, Bank Street Writer, and AppleWriter, we were able to understand the concept of using a "word processor" and able to deal with the concept of saving a file, printing, etc... rather than simply knowing that "to get a paper copy of what you are doing, press Open-Apple-P" By being introduced to the concepts of what we were doing rather than being trained to be button-pushers, we learned a lot more about computers. This trend has reversed itself in recent years though. Now, students are forced to do things "one way" on the computer - only use one brand of word processor, etc. Any student that shows the least bit of problem-solving ability or interest in what's going on other than what the teachers "want" you to see is immediately declared a "hacker" (in a bad sense)... one person my sister (who is still in high school) told me about got suspended for HAVING WINDOWS PRINT TO THE PRINTER OTHER THAN THE DEFAULT PRINTER - that is, to say the student wanted to print whatever was on the screen to a different printer than the one that was set up as the default.
Why is this? Kids should be encouraged to understand the concept of what "networking" provides, rather than hiding the innards of the operating system from students.
Or are today's schools merely trying to educate kids to be more compliant with laws such as the DMCA?
-Rick
There was a network that had no strings and Boingo was its name-o! B O I N G O B O I N G O B O I N G O and Boingo was its name-o! BTW: Is it "it's" or "its" here? -Rick