For those who live their lives within the letter of the law, there is no imposition.
You buy a CD. Your friend wants to listen to it. You loan him the CD and for that time you are unable to listen to it. Rights Management. You purchased the right to listen to that music in one place at a time.
The same principle applies to DRM. You rip and MP3 off of the CD you purchased. Your friend wants to hear it. You can either stream it to him or let him borrow the digital license for the CD (not just the song - you can't listen to two songs on the same CD at the same time...) so he can hear it.
Just wait until the RIAA/MPAA have a unique ID in the formats, and required to be in the encoders/decoders. Then they can maintain an international active database of licensing. Then we lose the incentive to share music - only one person can listen at a time, so you wouldn't want 100 people having a copy of your CD, right?
Again, it doesn't hurt you if you live completely within the law. For the other 99.986% of us, this is an inconvenience.
Perhaps, then, we should work on changing our laws instead of circumventing them. FOr this to work, of course, we have to compromise. We can't have get everything for almost nothing. We have to be willing to pay our share, or share what we paid for within the rules of licensing.
Actually, it would be pretty cool if we could set up an MP3 license-based server, and allowed people to send in their CDs to add licenses. Sure, we couldn't all listen to the same song at once, but that is what compromise is about.
Think about it - his company has carefully put itself where it is by compying other people's works. There was a time when they bought software they liked - now they just copy good ideas from others. Copyright and IP law is therefore a stumbling block of Microsoft, and could cause more issues in the future. The reduction of these laws could seriously benefit the company, which is well aware of it's own fragility.
I know several people who were born into substantially wealthy families. The important things they learned/were taught is that having money doesn't mean spending money, and the privilege you have of being here deserves your contribution.
You wouldn't know they were rich when you met them, nor when you saw the cars they drive, nor their houses. Their children do not have every toy they ever wanted.
If I didn't have to worry about money, I would still work, but I doubt that I would be as committed, or as financially savvy.
I think I would start a company, and work on the ideas and dreams I have. I think the dangerous thing for people who "come into money" is the ability to follow through on flights of fancy, where most people sort out their priorities and make goals of those dreams they have.
1. You can't have an "out-of-the-blue" hit movie if people know it's coming.
2. Disney lives in a fantasy world (really - this is not me making fun of them) where the abiliy to control the flow of information is more important than the information itself. The image, the presentation is everything to them.
If they didn't have gag orders, they would just have to lock people on the studio lots until filming was done - and fewer actors would work with them.
A dual 1.25GHz G4 with 2 gigs of RAM, 288 gigs of internal Ultra 160 SCSI, with the Apple 23" Cinema HD, and Final Cut Pro, should do the job quite nicely.
Granted, this config is more money than the box they built, but it sounds perfect for the situation you describe.
Maybe Apple's been planning this. Drive access speeds are high enough. Screen resolution is high enough (it's even called the HD Cinema Display), plus all G4 Towers can support dual monitors - one for the output, one for the palettes? Processing power is substantial with the dual G4s, and the System Controller reduces system bottlenecks. Final Cut Pro is gaining acceptance for it's capabilities. FireWire offers the ability to quickly add more storage with little hassle. Apple even notes using FCP OfflineRT with an iPod. The availability of the 20 gig model would allow you to edit an entire 30-minute show in DV format, and the whole Lord of the Rings trilogy in Offline RT.
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Could you transmit broadcast-quality full-motion video live from an Amiga?
Even the Apple II was capable of being connected to a VCR and recording both video and audio; as was the original Nintendo. If that was all it takes to be broadcast-worthy, then this article never would have been made. -- Your favorite band sucks.
No problem, all you have to do is have it monitor it's peak processing in relation to peak usage, and then supply it with an American Express card. -- Could be worse. Could be stabbed.
Well, in spite of being inable to read the site, I hope the box is a nice one for a reasonable price.
We have been at the point where a desktop computer could create broadcast-quality video for some time, but a box capable of streaming live broadcast quality would be nice.
Apple has some bits about CNN dot com doing on-location work on a PowerBook G3, and a recent story about a guy proposing using a movie made in iMovie in a theatre. I imagine the Broadcast Box is probably not a Macintosh, but a dual 1 GHz G4 would probably do quite well also.
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The device did no such thing. It merely functioned within the requirements of the program. If the researchers were really interested in a better oscillator, they would put it in a radiation-free box and try again. The device didn't sit down and think "Hey, if I find an external oscillation, I don't have to develop one of my own..." By chance and structure it was given this opportunity. If the board had been made another way, it might not have worked.
Though, we should make more computers like this: a sequence of self-programming gates and a rule structure instead of a hard-coded processor doing much of the work. Any application or component could have it's own recorded "last state" for the FPGA, and it would load the state and the programming for the application.
Wouldn't it be cool if Quake III's frame rate improved with play, or if the bots could also become smarter? Two identical systems might run entirely differently, making use of the radio waves and various external interferences around them to improve their operation.
Programmers (and scientists) often work inside a little mental space that is the limit of their science. That's just how it works most of the time. You can't reliably sit down and say "most people have fluorescent lights flickering at 60Hz, so I'll use that external source for a 60Hz oscillator. The device, however, doesn't have any considerations, it doesn't know about environment changes. If the computer making the oscillation was shut off, the program would continue to try other methods.
It's more of a circle, with a sort of flange on one end and a type of, well, thing on the other... with a cut out in the middle in the shape of a gazelle.
Get 9 cans. Set up 8 of 'em together at 45-degree angles, so they form a "wireless hub". Connect them all together and you can communicate in a 5-mile radius of your location. Now just find someone within that range who can get high-speed Internet access, and use the 9th Pringles can to connect to them.
Then you could offer wireless access to others through your "hub", and all chip in for the cost of the service.
The P4 pipeline is 100% longer, but the prediction algorithm is only 33% better. A miss causes 200% of the delay, per MHz, that a PIII has.
I wish I could find the link, but there is an article on Intel's own site that says the P4 is not as powerful as the PIII, merely able to clock better.
Maybe it's just me, but Pepsi Blue tastes like tainted tonic water, and so does Red Fusion. Basically they took two products that people loved, added less food coloring (though in different colors) and less flavor. Blue has some added flavor, but Fusion is just weak Dr. Pepper.
Also, both of them are far to carbonated for my liking. They practically turn into foam if they aren't ice cold.
I'm with you on the Vanilla Coke. It is more mellow than regular Coke and easier to drink.
Of course, Mountain Dew is still my drink of waking.
Coming soon, Microsoft Pong XP! With incredible 3D ray-traced graphics rendered in real time with anti-aliasing!
Actually, you could probably do this. Maintain the 2D function of the game, but suspend it above a background and have a lightsource... How long would it take to ray-trace a ball, two walls, and two paddles?
CNN has exclusive information about the availability of high-end surgical equipment and the medical institutions that seem to be driving the market!
Gee, people looking to push the envelope are, hmm, pushing the envelope?
I know every now and then someone comes out with a brilliant study stating what many of us believe is painfully obvious (poor eating habits aren't good for you?!), but it makes you wonder if those performing them are just looking to have data backing the assumptions or are lacking the spark of reason.
Some people like and are much more comfortable with their Linux software, and want to run it, no matter where. MacOS X offers you the ability to run XFree on it if you choose, giving you access to all the games you played on your Linux box.:)
It's just another choice that Apple can offer people with MacOS X.
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Not everybody wants MacOS X. Not everyone wants Linux. Thankfully, not everyone wants Windows.
The "limits" now become time. What we really need are systems (available to Joe Average-Income ComputerUser)capable of reading and writing 1GB of data per second. Drives, fixed and removable alike, need to start improving the speed of data manipulation over the quantity. If they could make 9-gig DVD that burned in 15 seconds and a 50-gig DVD that burned in 2 hours, which would sell more units?
Not that I don't think a 50-gig disc is great. We just need to focus on throughput and function a little more. 100-gig drives take WAY to long to format for the improvements in computing speed that have been made. While ATA-133 may offer great throughput, how many devices can use it up all the time; optical media, especially?
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For those who live their lives within the letter of the law, there is no imposition.
You buy a CD. Your friend wants to listen to it. You loan him the CD and for that time you are unable to listen to it. Rights Management. You purchased the right to listen to that music in one place at a time.
The same principle applies to DRM. You rip and MP3 off of the CD you purchased. Your friend wants to hear it. You can either stream it to him or let him borrow the digital license for the CD (not just the song - you can't listen to two songs on the same CD at the same time...) so he can hear it.
Just wait until the RIAA/MPAA have a unique ID in the formats, and required to be in the encoders/decoders. Then they can maintain an international active database of licensing. Then we lose the incentive to share music - only one person can listen at a time, so you wouldn't want 100 people having a copy of your CD, right?
Again, it doesn't hurt you if you live completely within the law. For the other 99.986% of us, this is an inconvenience.
Perhaps, then, we should work on changing our laws instead of circumventing them. FOr this to work, of course, we have to compromise. We can't have get everything for almost nothing. We have to be willing to pay our share, or share what we paid for within the rules of licensing.
Actually, it would be pretty cool if we could set up an MP3 license-based server, and allowed people to send in their CDs to add licenses. Sure, we couldn't all listen to the same song at once, but that is what compromise is about.
It's too late, they are both available on video.
I don't mind 1984 so much as Rollerball, though.
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It might actually be Bill Gates.
Think about it - his company has carefully put itself where it is by compying other people's works. There was a time when they bought software they liked - now they just copy good ideas from others. Copyright and IP law is therefore a stumbling block of Microsoft, and could cause more issues in the future. The reduction of these laws could seriously benefit the company, which is well aware of it's own fragility.
Besides, Bill sure has $1,000,000 to spare.
I know several people who were born into substantially wealthy families. The important things they learned/were taught is that having money doesn't mean spending money, and the privilege you have of being here deserves your contribution.
You wouldn't know they were rich when you met them, nor when you saw the cars they drive, nor their houses. Their children do not have every toy they ever wanted.
If I didn't have to worry about money, I would still work, but I doubt that I would be as committed, or as financially savvy.
I think I would start a company, and work on the ideas and dreams I have. I think the dangerous thing for people who "come into money" is the ability to follow through on flights of fancy, where most people sort out their priorities and make goals of those dreams they have.
I would have thought that OSDN would be a little better protected against the slashdot effect.
I suppose you can't protect every server, and everyone bites the hand that feeds them sometimes.
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Why is slashdot never slashdotted?
Actually, I think that's how it worked.
They do it for two reasons:
1. You can't have an "out-of-the-blue" hit movie if people know it's coming.
2. Disney lives in a fantasy world (really - this is not me making fun of them) where the abiliy to control the flow of information is more important than the information itself. The image, the presentation is everything to them.
If they didn't have gag orders, they would just have to lock people on the studio lots until filming was done - and fewer actors would work with them.
Hey,
A dual 1.25GHz G4 with 2 gigs of RAM, 288 gigs of internal Ultra 160 SCSI, with the Apple 23" Cinema HD, and Final Cut Pro, should do the job quite nicely.
Granted, this config is more money than the box they built, but it sounds perfect for the situation you describe.
Maybe Apple's been planning this. Drive access speeds are high enough. Screen resolution is high enough (it's even called the HD Cinema Display), plus all G4 Towers can support dual monitors - one for the output, one for the palettes? Processing power is substantial with the dual G4s, and the System Controller reduces system bottlenecks. Final Cut Pro is gaining acceptance for it's capabilities. FireWire offers the ability to quickly add more storage with little hassle. Apple even notes using FCP OfflineRT with an iPod. The availability of the 20 gig model would allow you to edit an entire 30-minute show in DV format, and the whole Lord of the Rings trilogy in Offline RT.
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And now back to your reglarly scheduled commercials.
Could you transmit broadcast-quality full-motion video live from an Amiga?
Even the Apple II was capable of being connected to a VCR and recording both video and audio; as was the original Nintendo. If that was all it takes to be broadcast-worthy, then this article never would have been made.
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Your favorite band sucks.
No problem, all you have to do is have it monitor it's peak processing in relation to peak usage, and then supply it with an American Express card.
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Could be worse. Could be stabbed.
Well, in spite of being inable to read the site, I hope the box is a nice one for a reasonable price.
We have been at the point where a desktop computer could create broadcast-quality video for some time, but a box capable of streaming live broadcast quality would be nice.
Apple has some bits about CNN dot com doing on-location work on a PowerBook G3, and a recent story about a guy proposing using a movie made in iMovie in a theatre. I imagine the Broadcast Box is probably not a Macintosh, but a dual 1 GHz G4 would probably do quite well also.
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There is no reason to have links that read "here" or "this".
The device did no such thing. It merely functioned within the requirements of the program. If the researchers were really interested in a better oscillator, they would put it in a radiation-free box and try again. The device didn't sit down and think "Hey, if I find an external oscillation, I don't have to develop one of my own..." By chance and structure it was given this opportunity. If the board had been made another way, it might not have worked.
Though, we should make more computers like this: a sequence of self-programming gates and a rule structure instead of a hard-coded processor doing much of the work. Any application or component could have it's own recorded "last state" for the FPGA, and it would load the state and the programming for the application.
Wouldn't it be cool if Quake III's frame rate improved with play, or if the bots could also become smarter? Two identical systems might run entirely differently, making use of the radio waves and various external interferences around them to improve their operation.
Programmers (and scientists) often work inside a little mental space that is the limit of their science. That's just how it works most of the time. You can't reliably sit down and say "most people have fluorescent lights flickering at 60Hz, so I'll use that external source for a 60Hz oscillator. The device, however, doesn't have any considerations, it doesn't know about environment changes. If the computer making the oscillation was shut off, the program would continue to try other methods.
It's more of a circle, with a sort of flange on one end and a type of, well, thing on the other... with a cut out in the middle in the shape of a gazelle.
You need Pringles cans!
Get 9 cans. Set up 8 of 'em together at 45-degree angles, so they form a "wireless hub". Connect them all together and you can communicate in a 5-mile radius of your location. Now just find someone within that range who can get high-speed Internet access, and use the 9th Pringles can to connect to them.
Then you could offer wireless access to others through your "hub", and all chip in for the cost of the service.
Let's take a look:
The P4 pipeline is 100% longer, but the prediction algorithm is only 33% better. A miss causes 200% of the delay, per MHz, that a PIII has.
I wish I could find the link, but there is an article on Intel's own site that says the P4 is not as powerful as the PIII, merely able to clock better.
Maybe it's just me, but Pepsi Blue tastes like tainted tonic water, and so does Red Fusion. Basically they took two products that people loved, added less food coloring (though in different colors) and less flavor. Blue has some added flavor, but Fusion is just weak Dr. Pepper.
Also, both of them are far to carbonated for my liking. They practically turn into foam if they aren't ice cold.
I'm with you on the Vanilla Coke. It is more mellow than regular Coke and easier to drink.
Of course, Mountain Dew is still my drink of waking.
Coming soon, Microsoft Pong XP! With incredible 3D ray-traced graphics rendered in real time with anti-aliasing!
Actually, you could probably do this. Maintain the 2D function of the game, but suspend it above a background and have a lightsource... How long would it take to ray-trace a ball, two walls, and two paddles?
** THIS JUST IN **
CNN has exclusive information about the availability of high-end surgical equipment and the medical institutions that seem to be driving the market!
Gee, people looking to push the envelope are, hmm, pushing the envelope?
I know every now and then someone comes out with a brilliant study stating what many of us believe is painfully obvious (poor eating habits aren't good for you?!), but it makes you wonder if those performing them are just looking to have data backing the assumptions or are lacking the spark of reason.
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Actually, it's just called "Mail" as it has been in previous versions of MacOS X.
The reviews I have read say the spam/junk detection is quite good at it's job, though it won't ever stop everything.
Some people like and are much more comfortable with their Linux software, and want to run it, no matter where. MacOS X offers you the ability to run XFree on it if you choose, giving you access to all the games you played on your Linux box. :)
It's just another choice that Apple can offer people with MacOS X.
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Not everybody wants MacOS X. Not everyone wants Linux. Thankfully, not everyone wants Windows.
Perhaps it should not have been "modern" but more appropriately, "good"
The "limits" now become time. What we really need are systems (available to Joe Average-Income ComputerUser)capable of reading and writing 1GB of data per second. Drives, fixed and removable alike, need to start improving the speed of data manipulation over the quantity. If they could make 9-gig DVD that burned in 15 seconds and a 50-gig DVD that burned in 2 hours, which would sell more units?
Not that I don't think a 50-gig disc is great. We just need to focus on throughput and function a little more. 100-gig drives take WAY to long to format for the improvements in computing speed that have been made. While ATA-133 may offer great throughput, how many devices can use it up all the time; optical media, especially?
From the article's title:
Sheesh, you would think that such an obvious malaprop would have been seen by at least one person.Or, perhaps they were referring to the P4's lack of performance over the PIII...
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Consider the possibilities this brings to field surgery in wartime or in developing countries.
With this invention, certain surgeries that are not possible in areas without electricity or expensive equipment can be performed.
It's not as though they will be replacing equipment in hospitals in a town near you...
Well, you could always set up a large Floodlight array over the dish...