He wants to sit down with everyone who develops Linux, FreeBSD and other open source PC products for some good faith talks? That's one big table.
Nope. The OS will be irrelevent as the protections would be in the hardware, not the software. After the DeCSS fiasco, I'm sure the next generation of DRM tech will be hardware-only.
This is good in a way, as playability should then be OS-neutral. Basically the OS would simply feed the Audio-video combo card the encrypted signal and a "play" instruction. The tamper-proof circuitry in the card will then decrypt the signal, read the rights-management info, decide if it's legal to play, and output the analog or encrypted digital signal to the monitor and speakers. The OS involvement would be minimal. This could be a good thing for Linux folks, actually.
Ok, so what's to stop someone in California from driving to Oregon or Nevada (burning gas and polluting the environment in the process) to buy their PC cheaper there? Or what is to stop them from buying it mail-order from a non-California based company. This bill would only hurt the competitiveness of PC retailers in California, and drive the mail order companies to another state.
Prehaps i'm oversimplifing the matter, but I'm of the opinion that if you don't like it and its free go elsewhere.
I agree with you for the most part, but can you really call it "free" when it's paid for with your tax dollars? If a private company offered free Internet service I would agree wholeheartedly they can filter and censor whatever they want, but when public tax dollars are involved, there should be some accountability to the community that pays the taxes.
That said, however, I agree with you basic point in that I don't think the majority of taxpayers think school is an appropriate place to be surfing for porn, so there probably isn't a problem here. But then we might ask, why should schools be using tax dollars to act as ISPs in the first place?
Unfortunately I've lost the reference, but I do remember reading about some proposed HDVCR rights management concepts, and they all seemed to involve the VCR's clock being set through a feed, digitally signed. Users won't be able to set their own clocks.
I say 'aboot' because I saw it on South Park. I go out of my way to pronounce things like 'oot' and 'aboot'.
As a Canadian, I certainly don't mind people making fun the way we talk, as all geographic regions have their own speech patterns.
I also love South Park, but for the life of me I can't figure out why Americans think our heads split in two when we talk. Do we open our mouths wider or something? Is this a view shared by a majority of Americans? I know many Canadians and Americans and I honestly can't see a difference in the way our mouths work. Is it just because I'm Canadian that I can't see it?
Absolutely, and the key point here is that the contract is between the purchaser of a Nintendo system and Nintendo. The merchent selling the Flash Linker was not a party to that contract, so it doesn't apply. Instead, he is being threatened under the DMCA, hence the EULA is completely irrelevent here.
So I suppose you'll be required to pay credit for the DVD, not cash, so you can be tracked later?
Not necessary. In-store cameras, face recognition technology, and drivers license photo databases are all that is needed. The technology exists today. Get used to it.
Yes, corporate execs do have a fiduciary responsibility to the company, but that does not in any way preclude ethical or moral behavior.
True, but is it immoral to sell a product to an end user who may use it for something you happen to consider immoral?
Consider this scerario. Suppose hypothetically you are a well known pro-choice activist in your city, and are planning a peaceful march downtown in support of women's right to choose to have an abortion. You go to the local Staples to buy materials for making signs for people to use in the demonstration. You get to the checkout, ready to pay cash for markers, bristol board, tape, scissors, staples, etc., and the manager steps out and tells the cashier not to allow you to purchase those items because he is a staunch pro-lifer, and his own moral belief compels him to refuse the sale.
Would you not feel like suing the store for discrimination?
But couldn't you accomplish the same thing by lending her some of your CDs, and she can listen to them and if she likes them, she may decide to buy them? I do that all the time. The danger with your solution, is it is a slippery slope. Perhaps she will like one of the excerpts and ask for a longer one. You may then create a more "extended" excerpt CD and eventually she'll be getting complete works and not need to buy any.
Where will she here it being played? National radio?
Why not? A very large fraction of my CD collection consists of recordings I heard on the radio (Frequently National Public Radio) either in their entirety or on review programs like Jim Svejda's Record Shelf.
Why is there all this crap about copyprotecting cd's? Tapes are just as easy to copy.
Yes, but when tapes are copied the quality goes down significantly from one generation to the next. Digital copies for the most part suffer no generation loss, allowing for exponential growth of pirated copies.
Yet there was no "analog rights management" back in the eighties.
Actually analog videocassettes (VHS) were protected with the Macrovision scheme starting in the mid-80's, so your comment isn't quite correct. I don't think anyone developed a copy protection scheme for audio cassettes, probably because the loss in quality with each generation, and the relatively low cost of originals made it economically unfeasible to develop such a scheme.
Just out of curiousity, has anyone done any execution speed comparisons of Perl, Python, and Ruby?
Personally, I like Ruby best as a language, but I haven't done any coding in either of those languages that really test speed. I'd be curious to know if there is a clear winner in that regard, or loser.
Let me second that nomination for Horowitz & Hill. It's been the standard reference for electronics in all the of the physics labs I've worked in. Really solid book. Highly recommended.
I agree with everything you said. My main point was that essays count for little if anything. I would hope that grades and SAT scores would count for more than the things you mention in most cases, though.
Most other scholarships and admissions are based on self-written essays.
No, they are generally based on grades and SAT scores. The essays are just to make it look like the college is interested in a well-rounded person, and not just someone who scores well on tests. Other than being a measure of basic literacy, the essays really have very little to do with admission, in practice.
You don't need to spend $800 for great headphones. $69 will get you Grado SR60's which sound fabulous.
Incidentally, has anyone tried the Nex II with Grados? I'm considering buying one, but sound quality is important to me. I use SR80's with my portable CD player, but most portable CD players suck! I'm still using an old Radio Shack CD-3400, which sounds decent. How does this compare? (This would be my first MP3 player.)
This is precisely correct! They have verified that quantum particles
still behave as quantum particles when subjected to gravity (it would
be astonishing if they didn't!) but they haven't investigated the
quantum nature of the gravitational force itself. Not that this
experiment isn't worthwhile, but saying they discovered "quantum
gravity" is misleading.
Again, in analogy to electromagnetic fields, one normally studies
quantum mechanics by first considering the quantum nature of just the
particles. This allows one, for instance, to calculated energy levels
in a hydrogen atom by solving Schroedinger's Equation with a potential
of V(r)=-ke/r (the electrostatic potential arising from the charged
nucleus). The electron is treated as a quantum particle, but the field
is treated classically. Then in a graduate level course you learn
about second quantization in which the electromagnetic field
itself is treated in a quantum way giving rise to Quantum
Electrodynamics (photon exchange, Feynman diagrams, and all that).
The photoelectric effect is an experiment which does indeed
distinguish between classical and quantum fields, and its result is
consistent with quantum electrodynamics and inconsistent with
classical electrodynamics.
Since we already know that particles behave in a quantum way when
subjected to a field, this experiment doesn't really teach us anything
new. In fact, on an undergraduate physics exam I wrote many years
back, one problem was to write down the wavefunction for an electron
trapped in an empty room. After first realizing that we needed to
take gravity into account as there are no other fields, we realized
that the correct solution is to start with the solution for an
electron in an infinite well potential, and use the WKB approximation
to add gravity in, with gravity treated classically as a potential of
V=mgy. This was not a quantum gravity problem. Neither is this a
quantum gravity experiment.
We need an experiment analogous to the photoelectric effect to
distinguish between quantum and classical gravity.
This has been discussed since shortly after Gnutella came out. It is essentially arguing that if each peer asks several other peers if a song is available, you get an exponential growth of search requests and the network clogs if you have too many users. This was basically the rationale for the Fasttrack type of systems, such as Morpheus, which most people use today.
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What government protection led to Microsoft's monopoly of the desktop OS market? Or the office suite?
Well, since there are alternative OS's like MacOS, Linux, and others, and alternative office suites like Star Office, K Office, Corel Office, etc., I don't think Microsoft has a monopoly. Yes, I know some federal judges disagree with me, but I think a more useful definition of "monopoly" is a situation in which the consumer has no choice. Where I live, the only choice for broadband is my local cable provider. That is a monopoly. And it was government granted in the sense that the cable company was given exclusive rights to hang their cables from public utility poles.
So I use that cable provider, as I have no choice for broadband. But I am typing this reply on a Red Hat Linux system, which is running both KOffice and StarOffice. So I have to disagree with the characterization of Microsoft as a "monopoly".
I write java web applications. I would be extrememly pissed off to find out that someone is pirating my software, somewhere.
And I carry a wallet in my pocket. I would be extremely pissed off to find someone mugging me and taking my wallet. But that wouldn't give me the right to search 100,000 homes at random trying to find it.
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Nope. The OS will be irrelevent as the protections would be in the hardware, not the software. After the DeCSS fiasco, I'm sure the next generation of DRM tech will be hardware-only.
This is good in a way, as playability should then be OS-neutral. Basically the OS would simply feed the Audio-video combo card the encrypted signal and a "play" instruction. The tamper-proof circuitry in the card will then decrypt the signal, read the rights-management info, decide if it's legal to play, and output the analog or encrypted digital signal to the monitor and speakers. The OS involvement would be minimal. This could be a good thing for Linux folks, actually.
I agree with you for the most part, but can you really call it "free" when it's paid for with your tax dollars? If a private company offered free Internet service I would agree wholeheartedly they can filter and censor whatever they want, but when public tax dollars are involved, there should be some accountability to the community that pays the taxes.
That said, however, I agree with you basic point in that I don't think the majority of taxpayers think school is an appropriate place to be surfing for porn, so there probably isn't a problem here. But then we might ask, why should schools be using tax dollars to act as ISPs in the first place?
As a Canadian, I certainly don't mind people making fun the way we talk, as all geographic regions have their own speech patterns.
I also love South Park, but for the life of me I can't figure out why Americans think our heads split in two when we talk. Do we open our mouths wider or something? Is this a view shared by a majority of Americans? I know many Canadians and Americans and I honestly can't see a difference in the way our mouths work. Is it just because I'm Canadian that I can't see it?
Absolutely, and the key point here is that the contract is between the purchaser of a Nintendo system and Nintendo. The merchent selling the Flash Linker was not a party to that contract, so it doesn't apply. Instead, he is being threatened under the DMCA, hence the EULA is completely irrelevent here.
Not necessary. In-store cameras, face recognition technology, and drivers license photo databases are all that is needed. The technology exists today. Get used to it.
True, but is it immoral to sell a product to an end user who may use it for something you happen to consider immoral?
Consider this scerario. Suppose hypothetically you are a well known pro-choice activist in your city, and are planning a peaceful march downtown in support of women's right to choose to have an abortion. You go to the local Staples to buy materials for making signs for people to use in the demonstration. You get to the checkout, ready to pay cash for markers, bristol board, tape, scissors, staples, etc., and the manager steps out and tells the cashier not to allow you to purchase those items because he is a staunch pro-lifer, and his own moral belief compels him to refuse the sale.
Would you not feel like suing the store for discrimination?
Where will she here it being played? National radio?
Why not? A very large fraction of my CD collection consists of recordings I heard on the radio (Frequently National Public Radio) either in their entirety or on review programs like Jim Svejda's Record Shelf.
Yes, but when tapes are copied the quality goes down significantly from one generation to the next. Digital copies for the most part suffer no generation loss, allowing for exponential growth of pirated copies.
Yet there was no "analog rights management" back in the eighties.
Actually analog videocassettes (VHS) were protected with the Macrovision scheme starting in the mid-80's, so your comment isn't quite correct. I don't think anyone developed a copy protection scheme for audio cassettes, probably because the loss in quality with each generation, and the relatively low cost of originals made it economically unfeasible to develop such a scheme.
Personally, I like Ruby best as a language, but I haven't done any coding in either of those languages that really test speed. I'd be curious to know if there is a clear winner in that regard, or loser.
This is true. I once applied to and got in to a Canadian University. But I didn't have to write an essay.
No, they are generally based on grades and SAT scores. The essays are just to make it look like the college is interested in a well-rounded person, and not just someone who scores well on tests. Other than being a measure of basic literacy, the essays really have very little to do with admission, in practice.
Incidentally, has anyone tried the Nex II with Grados? I'm considering buying one, but sound quality is important to me. I use SR80's with my portable CD player, but most portable CD players suck! I'm still using an old Radio Shack CD-3400, which sounds decent. How does this compare? (This would be my first MP3 player.)
Many cheap prositutes,
Oh horrors! Thanks for that warning. Guess we'll all avoid it then!
Again, in analogy to electromagnetic fields, one normally studies quantum mechanics by first considering the quantum nature of just the particles. This allows one, for instance, to calculated energy levels in a hydrogen atom by solving Schroedinger's Equation with a potential of V(r)=-ke/r (the electrostatic potential arising from the charged nucleus). The electron is treated as a quantum particle, but the field is treated classically. Then in a graduate level course you learn about second quantization in which the electromagnetic field itself is treated in a quantum way giving rise to Quantum Electrodynamics (photon exchange, Feynman diagrams, and all that). The photoelectric effect is an experiment which does indeed distinguish between classical and quantum fields, and its result is consistent with quantum electrodynamics and inconsistent with classical electrodynamics.
Since we already know that particles behave in a quantum way when subjected to a field, this experiment doesn't really teach us anything new. In fact, on an undergraduate physics exam I wrote many years back, one problem was to write down the wavefunction for an electron trapped in an empty room. After first realizing that we needed to take gravity into account as there are no other fields, we realized that the correct solution is to start with the solution for an electron in an infinite well potential, and use the WKB approximation to add gravity in, with gravity treated classically as a potential of V=mgy. This was not a quantum gravity problem. Neither is this a quantum gravity experiment.
We need an experiment analogous to the photoelectric effect to distinguish between quantum and classical gravity.
Well, since there are alternative OS's like MacOS, Linux, and others, and alternative office suites like Star Office, K Office, Corel Office, etc., I don't think Microsoft has a monopoly. Yes, I know some federal judges disagree with me, but I think a more useful definition of "monopoly" is a situation in which the consumer has no choice. Where I live, the only choice for broadband is my local cable provider. That is a monopoly. And it was government granted in the sense that the cable company was given exclusive rights to hang their cables from public utility poles.
So I use that cable provider, as I have no choice for broadband. But I am typing this reply on a Red Hat Linux system, which is running both KOffice and StarOffice. So I have to disagree with the characterization of Microsoft as a "monopoly".
And I carry a wallet in my pocket. I would be extremely pissed off to find someone mugging me and taking my wallet. But that wouldn't give me the right to search 100,000 homes at random trying to find it.
Why do they need to justify this? They're putting a product on the market, and you can choose to buy or not buy it.