"We must stop these anti-hydrogen terrorists, I am informed that hydrogen is in things we use everyday like coke, and is even vital to Americans' survival. These people who are anti-hydrogen are anti-american and are seeking to destroy the very basis of our society, you can not be a friend of america if you are not a friend of hydrogen"
If you don't pay for HBO you don't get it. Their license does not include DRM on the recordings but there certainly is Management of access even though the information is available to the box.
I know that few can see that this is DRM, and that the "new" DRM ideas are just extensions to many of these ideas but applied to commodity items rather than big ticket elements like live sports broadcasts.
Watching One Design races is much more interesting on these short (less than several days) races. Every boat is identical so its purely down to the skill of the sailors. This makes for tight races rather than the first race making clear who has the best boat.
And for real interest watch old working boats racing, slow as hell and there is always a crash or near crash.
This isn't DRM in action, this is a plain and simple case of a bug. Sure some channels are "open" but they still need to be decoded by something. The config or code or whatever it is was done incorrectly so all channels were scrambled.
This isn't getting a taste of DRM, its the digital equivalent of your analogue signal being blocked by bad weather or the antenna falling off the roof.
DRM already exists on cable, that is exactly what subscribing to HBO is about, so they already have experience of it. This however is giving them the same experience on their TV that they know and love on their Windows box... failure.
Hint to the marketing department...
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A good way to sell 3D games is to include screen shots in the demos to give people an idea of what they are going to see....
Even a link to a site with screen shots would be a plan.
A standard desktop ? Then how will all the prima-donna point out how their desktop is so much better because of this or that bell and whistle.
What a horrible idea, leveling the playing field and have a standard theme that concentrates on usability and then a pure battle of abilities to determine who underpins it. If there can be no differentation in terms of buttons and icons then how would people judge if not by "see-through windows" v "tear-off tabs" and other such pointless arguments and wars.
Terrible concept, concetrate a team on a decent standard theme, and then have competition for the best engine behind it....
Umm wait, isn't this in effect the same as the Video card market where standards have led to the engines (the cards) being bought and swapped purely on the grounds of ability, sure each has "special" instructions, but for 99% of applications no one cares.
Oh and isn't it the same as the PC market, one instruction set, AMD v Intel.
Oh I see, thats what they want, what a great idea now I understand.
The beauty of this experiment is not just the effect that it generates but the way it simply demonstrates a complex phenomena. By complex I mean that it demonstrates that light travels as waves, until you fire only 1 photon then you prove it travels as particles as well.
Simple, brilliant and something that the more you learn about physics the more you learn about what the experiment shows.
Re:Everyone would do nothing....
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Ummm fuckwit... the GENERAL in Pakistan siezed power in a bloodless coup, and has recently said there will be elections "real soon" but that he still has the power to disband the goverment.
Read the news. Now Sadam Husain... he was definately elected.
Been there, done it, got the T-shirt. At an absolute crunch you work the weekend, you might pull 50+ hour weeks for a while BUT....
YOU MUST THEN REST... take extra days off to recharge. Or your immune system becomes weaker, you are at more risk of being ill, and in an under resourced project that is a disaster.
Work 8 hours a day, review properly and I _guarentee_ that from my experience after three months you will be better off than if you work 15 hour days and weekends for those three months.
I object to this test, this is quite simply awful that they are willing to risk Robot lives in such a callous fashion. I insist that all Robots must be fitted with inflatable life rafts to enable them to surive on the water squares. Anything else would a terrible waste of Robot life and would be ("two would be"s in a sentence, building up to the nutter finish) the same as Hitler during WWII.
Everyone would do nothing....
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Its an internal issue. We shouldn't get involved in enforcing the regimes that countries run under.
After all what have the US, EU et al done about China's oppressive regime, or the military dictator in Pakistan etc etc etc.
1 year on there are a massive amount of people being held by the US goverment who have no access to the due process of Law. Would those people, who have been charged with no crime, who have been given no legal trial be better off in Argentina...
Hell yes. Are more black americans in prison now than go to college, yes, has this been a marked increase in the last 15 years.. yes. Has the crime rate soared in that period... no.
Freedom is something that many people assume they have, rather than something they have to fight for.
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Imagine taking notes in a meeting, mapping gestures to short cuts...
"Then Bert, bloody hell is this guy boring, said 'I think we should start at the beginning oh for fucks sake and then continue to the end well done sodding einstein' this was agreed as bloody obvious, does that guy get paid for it, well hello nice legs shit what did he say very nice legs up down up down up down.....
No seriously, why would anyone buy PDAs with the likes of the Nokia and Ericsson PDA/Mobiles hitting the market ? Less functionality, less stable OS, all around its not as good a product.
So sure they've lied about the colours, but then they have to or it doesn't stand out _at all_ amoung similar products with better functionality and PDA/Phones that wipe the floor with it.
So sodding what if it doesn't have direct application today ? Would the SFC complain about yet another Dean Kootz book or another pointless film with Tom Cruise in it ? No they wouldn't, but because these guys are doing research and pushing the boundaries of human knowledge it is therefore pointless because of its lack of application.
Maths has had a history of "not being practical" and then 50,100 or even more years later turning out to be 100% practical. Did Pythagorus et al do all that work because it was "practical", is set theory practical... oh hang on that is the basis of cryptography, which is an area that 200 years ago would have been totally "pure" and unsullied by being practical.
I say let these men live in their Ivory Towers, let them postulate and theorise. Because first come the ideas, then come the realities. A Turing maching isn't "practical" it require infinite tape, but damn have those ideas kicked in. Game Theory was created by a John Nash because of its maths, it then changed economics BUT that wasn't why he started thinking about it.
If one more arse with an English degree derides Maths just ask them... when was the last time an author helped changed the world, and what about the millions of others who just write pulp bestseller after pulp bestseller... what is the practical application of those, except to be recycled as loo roll.
Tonight on CNN/Fox/ABC/The Muppet Show we investigate how Terrorists can send messages disguised as normal images that CANNOT BE TRACKED or DECODED by US Law Enforcement Officials. "This THREAT to our national security cannot be underestimates" Said DoD Spokesman Hugh Budget "We must develop a new stealth plan to combat this threat".
TERRORISTS, HIJACKERS, PEDATRICIANS and even normal school kids (cut to picture of 8 year old playing in a park) can access this information, but only the sick and depraved (4 months ago this would be a picture of bin Laden, now it will be Sadam) can decode its true meaning.
Noted Terrorist Sympathiser Prof D Encrypt said "Eh ? Its standard stuff thats been around for years, what the hell are you mumbling about" Professor "Death" as he is know to the low end students who got into Uni thanks to Daddies contacts, is noted for his outspoken views supporting terrorists. It was he who first said "Anthrax that'll probably be a US Citizen doing that" rather than pointing the finger at Iraq.
Palm is currently the OS of choice in a grand total of zero of the major phone producers. Symbian however is the OS of choice in pretty much the whole raft of them.
Partnering with Palm for phones would be akin to partnering with Suse for the Mainframe market. Apple are much more likely to partner with the companies of the future like SonyEricsion, or to develop standard extensions to Symbian to make all Symbian phones interoperate seemlessly with the Mac.
Palm needs to change, it not a reliable OS for phones to run on. Symbian is, and it has the backing.
They could eZine it, and see if it could fly again. Costs would be minimal, or zero to them
Lets see if that flys shall we. Costs for an eZine.
1) Hosting, dependent on load, lets say a basic package with minimal bandwidth $100pm
2) Time, upload, updated editing, Content Management, configuration. Lets say 4 days a month, effective cost of $200 a day. Sure people can help out, but it still hits the daily job
So we are already running at nearly a $1,000pm and we haven't even started trying. Bandwidth requirements goes up (a slashdotting a month should do it) and suddenly you are shelling out over 20k a year.
e != free, haven't we all seen enough.coms implode to know that ?
Wow, and Wow again, sometimes the Slashdot community takes the biscuit. Lets examine the facts
Id as history of producing cool games, licensing the engine, releasing things to open source and... MAKING MONEY.
They are selling Q3 for 1/4 million dollars a pop. Think of the number of games out there using this, now imagine the customer relations that Id will have if having shelled out all that cash Id release it for free within 6 months, so by the time your game is even halfway through development Joe and Ted are releasing games based on Q3.
Then Id want to license DoomIII's engine, and everyone says "no f-in way we'll just wait a year and you'll Open Source the f-er" and Id suffer problems and Slashdot posts the "Id is dead" post and all the people who wanted the world for free be-moan their passing and wonder if all of the games will now be free.
Business is about money, if Id can shift it for $250,000 then let them, if Tribes could then you bet they would. Also Id aren't a publisher so that model doesn't work anyway.
AAARRRRGGGGGGHHHH sometimes the bone-headedness of the "it must be free" lobby makes me scream.
If you want to be free then work for free and live off dust bunnies. I'd prefer to have a roof over my head.
Ideas that have "almost" been turned down by Sony are legend, the point about Sony has always been that they tend to take a punt on this "possible" cases rather than doing the standard corporate drone concept of "doesn't look like something we've done before".
As the recently departed (as in dead) chairman said of the Walkman "if we'd asked focus groups we'd never have made it". They've also almost not invented CDs almost didn't get into the console market etc etc etc.
Sony are the company that doesn't kick itself years later saying "damn we though of that why didn't we try it".
Am I the only one here who wondered more about what party to go to at the weekend and chatting up the girls ? And going to practice explicitly because it seemed to make you more attractive to women. Was I strange that as a 14 year old I was obsessed by breasts ?
Damn didn't realise I should have been worrying about other things:-)
I know you have to be different by the European standard body for this stuff has a standard called MHP Have a look which already does all of this stuff. The organisation is called DVB that produces this, most of the rest of the planet has gone with the DVB specs and MHP as a future technology direction.
If you want everything to be different the go ahead, but wouldn't it be better all round if the box manufacturers could get cost multiples based on a world market rather than just the US, that way the price of the box could be driven even further down. And with an end game of PS3s being set-up as MHP boxes so you buy that and you've got the box.
OpenCable have taken much of the DVB work and "tweaked" it enough to make it non-standard with DVB because of "differences" in the US market. The reality is that they've done this to keep a closed market rather than face the fact that TV is TV and iTV is just iTV the place where its broadcast is completely immaterial.
Now if you could just use PAL as well we'd just have the French to convert:-)
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"We must stop these anti-hydrogen terrorists, I am informed that hydrogen is in things we use everyday like coke, and is even vital to Americans' survival. These people who are anti-hydrogen are anti-american and are seeking to destroy the very basis of our society, you can not be a friend of america if you are not a friend of hydrogen"
Digitally restricting rights to information...
If you don't pay for HBO you don't get it. Their license does not include DRM on the recordings but there certainly is Management of access even though the information is available to the box.
I know that few can see that this is DRM, and that the "new" DRM ideas are just extensions to many of these ideas but applied to commodity items rather than big ticket elements like live sports broadcasts.
Watching One Design races is much more interesting on these short (less than several days) races. Every boat is identical so its purely down to the skill of the sailors. This makes for tight races rather than the first race making clear who has the best boat.
And for real interest watch old working boats racing, slow as hell and there is always a crash or near crash.
This isn't DRM in action, this is a plain and simple case of a bug. Sure some channels are "open" but they still need to be decoded by something. The config or code or whatever it is was done incorrectly so all channels were scrambled.
This isn't getting a taste of DRM, its the digital equivalent of your analogue signal being blocked by bad weather or the antenna falling off the roof.
DRM already exists on cable, that is exactly what subscribing to HBO is about, so they already have experience of it. This however is giving them the same experience on their TV that they know and love on their Windows box... failure.
A good way to sell 3D games is to include screen shots in the demos to give people an idea of what they are going to see....
Even a link to a site with screen shots would be a plan.
A standard desktop ? Then how will all the prima-donna point out how their desktop is so much better because of this or that bell and whistle.
What a horrible idea, leveling the playing field and have a standard theme that concentrates on usability and then a pure battle of abilities to determine who underpins it. If there can be no differentation in terms of buttons and icons then how would people judge if not by "see-through windows" v "tear-off tabs" and other such pointless arguments and wars.
Terrible concept, concetrate a team on a decent standard theme, and then have competition for the best engine behind it....
Umm wait, isn't this in effect the same as the Video card market where standards have led to the engines (the cards) being bought and swapped purely on the grounds of ability, sure each has "special" instructions, but for 99% of applications no one cares.
Oh and isn't it the same as the PC market, one instruction set, AMD v Intel.
Oh I see, thats what they want, what a great idea now I understand.
The beauty of this experiment is not just the effect that it generates but the way it simply demonstrates a complex phenomena. By complex I mean that it demonstrates that light travels as waves, until you fire only 1 photon then you prove it travels as particles as well.
Simple, brilliant and something that the more you learn about physics the more you learn about what the experiment shows.
Ummm fuckwit... the GENERAL in Pakistan siezed power in a bloodless coup, and has recently said there will be elections "real soon" but that he still has the power to disband the goverment.
Read the news. Now Sadam Husain... he was definately elected.
Yes it will result in worse code:
a) Concentration is reduced
b) Morale is reduced
c) Quality is sacrified for "delivery"
d) Deliveries become bug riddle pieces of crap
Been there, done it, got the T-shirt. At an absolute crunch you work the weekend, you might pull 50+ hour weeks for a while BUT....
YOU MUST THEN REST... take extra days off to recharge. Or your immune system becomes weaker, you are at more risk of being ill, and in an under resourced project that is a disaster.
Work 8 hours a day, review properly and I _guarentee_ that from my experience after three months you will be better off than if you work 15 hour days and weekends for those three months.
I object to this test, this is quite simply awful that they are willing to risk Robot lives in such a callous fashion. I insist that all Robots must be fitted with inflatable life rafts to enable them to surive on the water squares. Anything else would a terrible waste of Robot life and would be ("two would be"s in a sentence, building up to the nutter finish) the same as Hitler during WWII.
Its an internal issue. We shouldn't get involved in enforcing the regimes that countries run under.
After all what have the US, EU et al done about China's oppressive regime, or the military dictator in Pakistan etc etc etc.
Oh but we would sell arms to both sides.
1 year on there are a massive amount of people being held by the US goverment who have no access to the due process of Law. Would those people, who have been charged with no crime, who have been given no legal trial be better off in Argentina...
Hell yes. Are more black americans in prison now than go to college, yes, has this been a marked increase in the last 15 years.. yes. Has the crime rate soared in that period... no.
Freedom is something that many people assume they have, rather than something they have to fight for.
Imagine taking notes in a meeting, mapping gestures to short cuts...
"Then Bert, bloody hell is this guy boring, said 'I think we should start at the beginning oh for fucks sake and then continue to the end well done sodding einstein' this was agreed as bloody obvious, does that guy get paid for it, well hello nice legs shit what did he say very nice legs up down up down up down.....
No seriously, why would anyone buy PDAs with the likes of the Nokia and Ericsson PDA/Mobiles hitting the market ? Less functionality, less stable OS, all around its not as good a product.
So sure they've lied about the colours, but then they have to or it doesn't stand out _at all_ amoung similar products with better functionality and PDA/Phones that wipe the floor with it.
So sodding what if it doesn't have direct application today ? Would the SFC complain about yet another Dean Kootz book or another pointless film with Tom Cruise in it ? No they wouldn't, but because these guys are doing research and pushing the boundaries of human knowledge it is therefore pointless because of its lack of application.
Maths has had a history of "not being practical" and then 50,100 or even more years later turning out to be 100% practical. Did Pythagorus et al do all that work because it was "practical", is set theory practical... oh hang on that is the basis of cryptography, which is an area that 200 years ago would have been totally "pure" and unsullied by being practical.
I say let these men live in their Ivory Towers, let them postulate and theorise. Because first come the ideas, then come the realities. A Turing maching isn't "practical" it require infinite tape, but damn have those ideas kicked in. Game Theory was created by a John Nash because of its maths, it then changed economics BUT that wasn't why he started thinking about it.
If one more arse with an English degree derides Maths just ask them... when was the last time an author helped changed the world, and what about the millions of others who just write pulp bestseller after pulp bestseller... what is the practical application of those, except to be recycled as loo roll.
Tonight on CNN/Fox/ABC/The Muppet Show we investigate how Terrorists can send messages disguised as normal images that CANNOT BE TRACKED or DECODED by US Law Enforcement Officials. "This THREAT to our national security cannot be underestimates" Said DoD Spokesman Hugh Budget "We must develop a new stealth plan to combat this threat".
TERRORISTS, HIJACKERS, PEDATRICIANS and even normal school kids (cut to picture of 8 year old playing in a park) can access this information, but only the sick and depraved (4 months ago this would be a picture of bin Laden, now it will be Sadam) can decode its true meaning.
Noted Terrorist Sympathiser Prof D Encrypt said "Eh ? Its standard stuff thats been around for years, what the hell are you mumbling about" Professor "Death" as he is know to the low end students who got into Uni thanks to Daddies contacts, is noted for his outspoken views supporting terrorists. It was he who first said "Anthrax that'll probably be a US Citizen doing that" rather than pointing the finger at Iraq.
To be continued.....
Palm is currently the OS of choice in a grand total of zero of the major phone producers. Symbian however is the OS of choice in pretty much the whole raft of them.
Partnering with Palm for phones would be akin to partnering with Suse for the Mainframe market. Apple are much more likely to partner with the companies of the future like SonyEricsion, or to develop standard extensions to Symbian to make all Symbian phones interoperate seemlessly with the Mac.
Palm needs to change, it not a reliable OS for phones to run on. Symbian is, and it has the backing.
They could eZine it, and see if it could fly again. Costs would be minimal, or zero to them
.coms implode to know that ?
Lets see if that flys shall we. Costs for an eZine.
1) Hosting, dependent on load, lets say a basic package with minimal bandwidth $100pm
2) Time, upload, updated editing, Content Management, configuration. Lets say 4 days a month, effective cost of $200 a day. Sure people can help out, but it still hits the daily job
So we are already running at nearly a $1,000pm and we haven't even started trying. Bandwidth requirements goes up (a slashdotting a month should do it) and suddenly you are shelling out over 20k a year.
e != free, haven't we all seen enough
I knew it wasn't a cartoon, its actually the lab report after the genetic modification to enable them to speak.
Of course if you tried the same on Rabbits they'd only ever say one thing..... "grass".
Watching his site hit stats...
Slashdotting occurs...
Falls backwards...
Crushed to death by his PC.
Maybe the chair wasn't such a great idea
Wow, and Wow again, sometimes the Slashdot community takes the biscuit. Lets examine the facts
Id as history of producing cool games, licensing the engine, releasing things to open source and... MAKING MONEY.
They are selling Q3 for 1/4 million dollars a pop. Think of the number of games out there using this, now imagine the customer relations that Id will have if having shelled out all that cash Id release it for free within 6 months, so by the time your game is even halfway through development Joe and Ted are releasing games based on Q3.
Then Id want to license DoomIII's engine, and everyone says "no f-in way we'll just wait a year and you'll Open Source the f-er" and Id suffer problems and Slashdot posts the "Id is dead" post and all the people who wanted the world for free be-moan their passing and wonder if all of the games will now be free.
Business is about money, if Id can shift it for $250,000 then let them, if Tribes could then you bet they would. Also Id aren't a publisher so that model doesn't work anyway.
AAARRRRGGGGGGHHHH sometimes the bone-headedness of the "it must be free" lobby makes me scream.
If you want to be free then work for free and live off dust bunnies. I'd prefer to have a roof over my head.
Ideas that have "almost" been turned down by Sony are legend, the point about Sony has always been that they tend to take a punt on this "possible" cases rather than doing the standard corporate drone concept of "doesn't look like something we've done before".
As the recently departed (as in dead) chairman said of the Walkman "if we'd asked focus groups we'd never have made it". They've also almost not invented CDs almost didn't get into the console market etc etc etc.
Sony are the company that doesn't kick itself years later saying "damn we though of that why didn't we try it".
If its in rupees that would be...
100,000 rupees = 2,061.33 USD
Umm maybe it isn't much to boast about if its in China its
100,000 Yuan Renminbi = 12,081.96 USD
Still not very much. I feel sorry for the chap.
Am I the only one here who wondered more about what party to go to at the weekend and chatting up the girls ? And going to practice explicitly because it seemed to make you more attractive to women. Was I strange that as a 14 year old I was obsessed by breasts ?
:-)
Damn didn't realise I should have been worrying about other things
I know you have to be different by the European standard body for this stuff has a standard called MHP Have a look which already does all of this stuff. The organisation is called DVB that produces this, most of the rest of the planet has gone with the DVB specs and MHP as a future technology direction.
If you want everything to be different the go ahead, but wouldn't it be better all round if the box manufacturers could get cost multiples based on a world market rather than just the US, that way the price of the box could be driven even further down. And with an end game of PS3s being set-up as MHP boxes so you buy that and you've got the box.
OpenCable have taken much of the DVB work and "tweaked" it enough to make it non-standard with DVB because of "differences" in the US market. The reality is that they've done this to keep a closed market rather than face the fact that TV is TV and iTV is just iTV the place where its broadcast is completely immaterial.
Now if you could just use PAL as well we'd just have the French to convert