I throw garbage in other people's trash all the time, if I throw some some drug residue in there, and the cops confiscate it, they can prosecute the home owner for possession?? That is not a good thing.
No, they can't prosecute the home owner for possession... however, they can use that residue as PROBABLE CAUSE to get a warrant to search the homeowner's home to look for drugs. That is what happened in this case.
Note that I am of the opinion that what happened... in both cases... is fine. Trash should be that... trash... and everyone should buy a shredder. Oh yaah, and toss the drug paraphenalia in the public dumpster...:)
Ummm, the current generation of graphics programming (Carmack's included) is light-years beyond Doom. Doom was brilliant for what it displayed on the machines you could play it on. Doom isn't even real 3d. There is more processor/programmer power used to generate shadows nowadays.
The unfortunate problem with small or independent bands is that a large part of what is enjoyable about the music one listens to is that your friends listen to it and that you can go places and hear it playing on the loudspeakers.
The advertising, pushed by the RIAA, and ultimately paid for by consumers, creates the mass mentality that allows you to "be" something while listening. In a sense, when you buy music, you are paying for the advertising that gives you the sense that other people know who you are when they hear you blaring your Rap, Hip-hop, Techno, Jazz, or Classic rock, etc.
Note this is not an endorsement of outdated business models, it simply is a statement of why local music will always be, well, small-time.
Just to be clear, you ARE a heartless shit AND a little whore. Just because you CAN charge $50/hour to others, doesn't mean you MUST.
When you get just past whipper-snapper age you'll realize that monetizing every life transaction is ridiculous. It makes sense in terms of CD purchasing because it is a mass-media transaction, but in terms of friends and families it isn't a good idea.
You may make $25 to install that TIVO, but treating everyone in the world like a business transaction will result in personal alienation. Ultimately, it may COST you money because people don't enjoy doing business with, or referring business to, people who act like they are God's gift to those around them.
My suggestion is to instead say "sure but it'll cost you lunch/dinner/bottle of wine/six-pack" based on the job, which you then share with them. People enjoy giving gifts far more than paying money, even if the cost is the same. That way, also, when they "pay" you, you get to do something novel... SOCIALIZE!
don't ever let this happen. The car design scenario creeped me out. I work for an automotive supplier, and we ALREADY have to wait in line to use test equipment,
The point is that you WON'T have to wait in line. You will have more power available to you and it will be cheaper since you are not maintaining it yourself!
Wake up: the web is about communication. If you conform to open standards, you aid communication, because it means that anyone can reach you.
If the web is truly about communication, then the most effective form of communication should be used. Flash is more effective at certain forms of communication (audio/visual), and less effective at others (text/static images). But, actually, despite your commmands from on high, the web isn't about communication. The web is about whatever works to make up the web. Sorry to disappoint, but Flash is a large part of that. I'm sorry you're missing out.
You are absolutely correct in your comparison of pools, resturaunts, smoking, and peeing. However, in a free society, I should be able to run a pool that people can pee in or a resturaunt that people can smoke in. The nice thing about a free society is, people who don't like it don't have to show up.
Nowhere in the constitution does it say you have the right to make every pool be piss-free and every resturaunt be smoke-free.
The square root of nine is three. My hair color is brown. The first letter in your username is 'F'.
Your assessment of the RESULT of a Free Market is equally relevant as the above three statements to the question of whether the DMCA is the RESULT of a Free Market operation.
Please keep in mind I have neither agreed nor disagreed with your assessment of the result of a Free Market. I MIGHT actually agree with you about this. However that has NOTHING do with what was being discussed.
My thesis is simply that the DMCA is a result of poor government, not a Free Market. The DMCA in fact, is the result of the exact OPPOSITE of a Free Market. This is contrary to what you stated in your original post and what my post (and several others) were correcting you on.
If you want to be more effective in your arguments, you'll need to separate your idea of "large corporations are the root of all evil" from your idea of "a free market is the root of all large corporations". (Which therefore seems to you that the free market is the root of all evil.)
A completely separate concept that you might want to consider is that the government, comprised of the Democratic/Republication monopolies, are the largest mopolised industry we've got. Makes Microsoft look like chump change.
You really want to know my opinion? (maybe not but I'll share it anyway...:) Corporate crimedoers? Politicians? Beauracrats of either flavor? Light 'em ALL up and let Satan sort 'em out.
The term Free Market means a market Free of Government. If the government CAN legislate an aspect of a market, then that market is NO LONGER free. It doesn't matter whether that portion of the government is the supreme court or congress. It does not even matter what they do, or even if they DO nothing at all. The market is not operating freely.
The reason corporations are buying off Congress is because Congress CAN (or thinks they can) legislate control. If government did not have power over that market, the money would dry up very quickly.
This does not that ALL goverment power is "bad", it just needs to be carefully monitored.
This reminds me of a hopefully not-too-offtopic joke.
Two officers (let's have them be British and American) are in a restroom taking a leak. The American finishes and walks to the door, skipping the sink on the way out. The Brit says "You know, chap, in the British military, they teach us to wash after using the restroom." The American responds "That so? Interesting. In the US military they teach us not to piss on our hands."
I've never heard of anyone shocking themselves, despite how "easy" it may appear.
It is truly unbelievable you would refer to this as a recent conflict! Did you take ANY world history? Remember the crusades? Saladin? Moorish occupation of Spain? For Bin Laden and much of the Arabic world this is still the same conflict with the United States taking on the mantle of the European crusaders.
People have been dying in the Mideast for CENTURIES.
Sorry MacGregor, but you can't train people to have good taste and common sense.
So what you're saying is, people have bad taste and poor common sense, therefore they shouldn't be encouraged to use a powerful tool.
Flash IS very powerful, and yes, poor taste and lack of common sense create lots of ugliness (in more cases than just Flash). But at the end of the day it's a powerful tool for such things as web-based training, cartoons, targeted presentations, cute little games, and even applications that send and receive data without having to load all the markup with it. Can it also be used to generate crap? Yes. But so can HTML, the animated gif, and even the video camera. Just avoid the crap.
Chris
Like most dictators Hitler was very pro gun control. Outside the army, guns were very scarce in Nazi controlled territory, and simply carrying one was an incredible risk.
My doctor needs the ability to genetically screen for disease, but my insurance company, even if it knows my flaws, should not be allowed to charge more.
Why is this, exactly? You have a genetic defect that will cost the insurance company more than the average customer. Essentially, what you want is for the other people using your insurance company to PAY FOR YOU. Simply stated, you want to cheat the insurance company and the other subscribers using it.
Remember we used to have timesharing dumb terminals connected to very powerful centralized computers??? What they are proposing is somewhat smarter terminals connected to very powerful distributed computers.
Essentially what they are trying to do is get rid of the inefficiencies of our currently distributed hardware. The fictional "Mary" simply has too much generalized computing power on her desktop. She doesn't need it... centralized servers are a far more efficient method.
Which is more efficient:
Purchasing a couple grand worth of computing power, having it sit on my desktop, and letting it go idle (or trying to sell it back to the rest of the world for pennies...)
... or buying the cheapest, dedicated, dumb terminal I can find and buying the computing power from the central repository if/when I need it... and let the fictional biotech company go to the same repository.
Simply put most consumers do not NEED computers which are powerful enough to make this system worthwhile... of course we all do here but we're the minority. And if perhaps you don't believe me... how many of your computer illiterate friends have hotmail accounts that they can access from any web-browser. Now how many of your non-computer illiterate friends.... hmmmm.....
This is (theoretically) possible because complicated algorithms might be used to regenerate the data. An example of this is that I could transmit the value of PI to you (in an infinite amount of time) or I could transmit the algorithm for calculating PI to you (finite). There, I've just created an infinite compression algorithm (which happens to work only for PI...:).
Also, you state that "no pattern == no compression". A sequence of 11M of 1s is equally random and equally likely to any other sequence you might see. The ONLY difference is that YOU see an easy algorithm for compressing it.
There is always a pattern. You've disproved your own suggestion with your own example./dev/urandom is a random nunmber generator. There is an algorithm that generates it (including a seed value). I transmit the seed, I transmit the algorithm and I've compressed the data. The trick is finding the right algorithm to describe data our puny human minds see as "random".
you can't see the pattern != no pattern
Now I still have a healthy amount of skepticism for this... but hey, one can dream...
I already know how to mod a Japanese cube to play US games (channeltechnology.com), but I don't know how to mod the region of the Panasonic player. If you could, you could have a US version of the player.
Chuckle. No, they left off the DVD player so they could sell it for $100 less. The graphics capabilities are very similar on the XBox/GameCube. The PS2 is a bit of a step down from either (a year behind), which just goes to show that graphics mean little given the PS2 sales lead this last season. You can fanboy all you want, but graphics don't mean squat.
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I throw garbage in other people's trash all the time, if I throw some some drug residue in there, and the cops confiscate it, they can prosecute the home owner for possession?? That is not a good thing.
:)
No, they can't prosecute the home owner for possession... however, they can use that residue as PROBABLE CAUSE to get a warrant to search the homeowner's home to look for drugs. That is what happened in this case.
Note that I am of the opinion that what happened... in both cases... is fine. Trash should be that... trash... and everyone should buy a shredder. Oh yaah, and toss the drug paraphenalia in the public dumpster...
Ummm, the current generation of graphics programming (Carmack's included) is light-years beyond Doom. Doom was brilliant for what it displayed on the machines you could play it on. Doom isn't even real 3d. There is more processor/programmer power used to generate shadows nowadays.
-- The box said "Windows XP or better," so I bought OS X. The next box said "OS X or better," so I bought Linux.
in Nelson voice:
"Haha... you paid for Linux."
The advertising, pushed by the RIAA, and ultimately paid for by consumers, creates the mass mentality that allows you to "be" something while listening. In a sense, when you buy music, you are paying for the advertising that gives you the sense that other people know who you are when they hear you blaring your Rap, Hip-hop, Techno, Jazz, or Classic rock, etc.
Note this is not an endorsement of outdated business models, it simply is a statement of why local music will always be, well, small-time.
Just to be clear, you ARE a heartless shit AND a little whore. Just because you CAN charge $50/hour to others, doesn't mean you MUST.
When you get just past whipper-snapper age you'll realize that monetizing every life transaction is ridiculous. It makes sense in terms of CD purchasing because it is a mass-media transaction, but in terms of friends and families it isn't a good idea.
You may make $25 to install that TIVO, but treating everyone in the world like a business transaction will result in personal alienation. Ultimately, it may COST you money because people don't enjoy doing business with, or referring business to, people who act like they are God's gift to those around them.
My suggestion is to instead say "sure but it'll cost you lunch/dinner/bottle of wine/six-pack" based on the job, which you then share with them. People enjoy giving gifts far more than paying money, even if the cost is the same. That way, also, when they "pay" you, you get to do something novel... SOCIALIZE!
Because, frankly, you sure as hell need it.
The point is that you WON'T have to wait in line. You will have more power available to you and it will be cheaper since you are not maintaining it yourself!
If the web is truly about communication, then the most effective form of communication should be used. Flash is more effective at certain forms of communication (audio/visual), and less effective at others (text/static images). But, actually, despite your commmands from on high, the web isn't about communication. The web is about whatever works to make up the web. Sorry to disappoint, but Flash is a large part of that. I'm sorry you're missing out.
This is offtopic but hey, I felt compelled.
You are absolutely correct in your comparison of pools, resturaunts, smoking, and peeing. However, in a free society, I should be able to run a pool that people can pee in or a resturaunt that people can smoke in. The nice thing about a free society is, people who don't like it don't have to show up.
Nowhere in the constitution does it say you have the right to make every pool be piss-free and every resturaunt be smoke-free.
Think about it.
The square root of nine is three. My hair color is brown. The first letter in your username is 'F'.
:) Corporate crimedoers? Politicians? Beauracrats of either flavor? Light 'em ALL up and let Satan sort 'em out.
Your assessment of the RESULT of a Free Market is equally relevant as the above three statements to the question of whether the DMCA is the RESULT of a Free Market operation.
Please keep in mind I have neither agreed nor disagreed with your assessment of the result of a Free Market. I MIGHT actually agree with you about this. However that has NOTHING do with what was being discussed.
My thesis is simply that the DMCA is a result of poor government, not a Free Market. The DMCA in fact, is the result of the exact OPPOSITE of a Free Market. This is contrary to what you stated in your original post and what my post (and several others) were correcting you on.
If you want to be more effective in your arguments, you'll need to separate your idea of "large corporations are the root of all evil" from your idea of "a free market is the root of all large corporations". (Which therefore seems to you that the free market is the root of all evil.)
A completely separate concept that you might want to consider is that the government, comprised of the Democratic/Republication monopolies, are the largest mopolised industry we've got. Makes Microsoft look like chump change.
You really want to know my opinion? (maybe not but I'll share it anyway...
The term Free Market means a market Free of Government. If the government CAN legislate an aspect of a market, then that market is NO LONGER free. It doesn't matter whether that portion of the government is the supreme court or congress. It does not even matter what they do, or even if they DO nothing at all. The market is not operating freely.
The reason corporations are buying off Congress is because Congress CAN (or thinks they can) legislate control. If government did not have power over that market, the money would dry up very quickly.
This does not that ALL goverment power is "bad", it just needs to be carefully monitored.
This reminds me of a hopefully not-too-offtopic joke.
Two officers (let's have them be British and American) are in a restroom taking a leak. The American finishes and walks to the door, skipping the sink on the way out. The Brit says "You know, chap, in the British military, they teach us to wash after using the restroom." The American responds "That so? Interesting. In the US military they teach us not to piss on our hands."
I've never heard of anyone shocking themselves, despite how "easy" it may appear.
It is truly unbelievable you would refer to this as a recent conflict! Did you take ANY world history? Remember the crusades? Saladin? Moorish occupation of Spain? For Bin Laden and much of the Arabic world this is still the same conflict with the United States taking on the mantle of the European crusaders.
People have been dying in the Mideast for CENTURIES.
Sorry MacGregor, but you can't train people to have good taste and common sense.
So what you're saying is, people have bad taste and poor common sense, therefore they shouldn't be encouraged to use a powerful tool.
Flash IS very powerful, and yes, poor taste and lack of common sense create lots of ugliness (in more cases than just Flash). But at the end of the day it's a powerful tool for such things as web-based training, cartoons, targeted presentations, cute little games, and even applications that send and receive data without having to load all the markup with it. Can it also be used to generate crap? Yes. But so can HTML, the animated gif, and even the video camera. Just avoid the crap. Chris
Like most dictators Hitler was very pro gun control. Outside the army, guns were very scarce in Nazi controlled territory, and simply carrying one was an incredible risk.
My doctor needs the ability to genetically screen for disease, but my insurance company, even if it knows my flaws, should not be allowed to charge more.
Why is this, exactly? You have a genetic defect that will cost the insurance company more than the average customer. Essentially, what you want is for the other people using your insurance company to PAY FOR YOU. Simply stated, you want to cheat the insurance company and the other subscribers using it.
Essentially what they are trying to do is get rid of the inefficiencies of our currently distributed hardware. The fictional "Mary" simply has too much generalized computing power on her desktop. She doesn't need it... centralized servers are a far more efficient method.
Which is more efficient:
- Purchasing a couple grand worth of computing power, having it sit on my desktop, and letting it go idle (or trying to sell it back to the rest of the world for pennies...)
- ... or buying the cheapest, dedicated, dumb terminal I can find and buying the computing power from the central repository if/when I need it... and let the fictional biotech company go to the same repository.
Simply put most consumers do not NEED computers which are powerful enough to make this system worthwhile... of course we all do here but we're the minority. And if perhaps you don't believe me... how many of your computer illiterate friends have hotmail accounts that they can access from any web-browser. Now how many of your non-computer illiterate friends.... hmmmm.....-- Chris
This is (theoretically) possible because complicated algorithms might be used to regenerate the data. An example of this is that I could transmit the value of PI to you (in an infinite amount of time) or I could transmit the algorithm for calculating PI to you (finite). There, I've just created an infinite compression algorithm (which happens to work only for PI... :).
/dev/urandom is a random nunmber generator. There is an algorithm that generates it (including a seed value). I transmit the seed, I transmit the algorithm and I've compressed the data. The trick is finding the right algorithm to describe data our puny human minds see as "random".
Also, you state that "no pattern == no compression". A sequence of 11M of 1s is equally random and equally likely to any other sequence you might see. The ONLY difference is that YOU see an easy algorithm for compressing it.
There is always a pattern. You've disproved your own suggestion with your own example.
you can't see the pattern != no pattern
Now I still have a healthy amount of skepticism for this... but hey, one can dream...
I already know how to mod a Japanese cube to play US games (channeltechnology.com), but I don't know how to mod the region of the Panasonic player. If you could, you could have a US version of the player.
Ideas?
Chuckle. No, they left off the DVD player so they could sell it for $100 less. The graphics capabilities are very similar on the XBox/GameCube. The PS2 is a bit of a step down from either (a year behind), which just goes to show that graphics mean little given the PS2 sales lead this last season. You can fanboy all you want, but graphics don't mean squat.
What does matter?
Brand recognition.
Advertising.
Software.
Sadly, in that order.