First there was child porn, then there was midget porn, now there is Panda porn. www.pandaporn.com (I don't know if that's a real site... if so, save us.)
I wonder if I could register a domain name that basically told the algorhytm for the DeCSS, wonder if I would be arrested or sued just for registering the domain... Scary
When I first read the headline, I thought, "Good, you shouldn't be messing around at work." Then I realized I was posting to./ at work.
I hope they don't start blocking./ at work. But seriously, music can make people more productive (look into Music Therapy). If people spend 10 minutes a day downloading stuff or changing CDs, but are 10% more productive and happy in general, then that's great. I am also the same person that is up for Quake matches after work, or lunch.
It is always a sad thing to see talent leave us for the great beyond, (due to someone perhaps being in public schools reading this I dare not say Heaven).
The Who was a great band. He will be missed. Let's all reflect on those great artists of all types that have all gone, but left us with great things. This isn't a time for arguement about music and bands, but a time for reflection and mourning for this man.
I disagree, as well as does the company that makes mod chips. It isn't made for pirates. It was made to see if you could do it, and to make money (which is exactly why microsoft is in it), as well as for development...
Yea, the demos are great, but really, it can't catch on for the mass public and theatres. I love demos, but who will watch a 2 and a half hour demo and pay 8 dollars to do so...
"I'm Sorry ladies and gentlemen, but due to a small bug in Maya Realtime 2004, the theatre has crashed."
Or Better yet
"Part of our cluster is now out... but instead of compromising the movie and showing this prerendered reel, we will show the movie at 1 frame/sec for the rest of the movie, LoTR will now finish in 27 days..."
Come on people, we can't even get digital screens and real THX in all theatres, let alone renderfarms, Machiimia is crazy...
So these people want to put massive multimillion dollar renderfarms in theatres just so it can be done in real time? Sounds like a bad idea to me.
Even rendering the sound in realtime just doesn't sound feasable. Csound couldn't do a whole orchistra with voice modeling and effects in realtime on even most nice clusters...
Moreover, will the audience care? It's not like the CG actors are going to 'screw up' so it's not interesting like seeing a play. I personally don't see the point.
Well, the answer to the question of the topic is...... Never, or when StarTrek and Holodecks become reality. It's just not feasable, and with 40-70 hours a frame for current movie renders, you can't move that into 29.97 times per second for the sake of it being realtime..
But I can use a pen and paper to copy a book, and O'Riley's publishing isn't getting up in arms about that... or better yet, a "copying Machine". If Mod chips are circumention devices, how is that different?
Are u sure they could do that? Because if the person bought them before MSFT made a deal of them, and when it was ok to sell them on Ebay (MSFT hasn't said anything before about this have they?), then could they go back and get people for what they did in the past?...
Hey Intel and AMD sell their hardware for the right prices and then don't care WHAT THE HELL you do with it. It's all just a normal computer to me, Nvidia video, Intel chip... why can't I do what I want with it?
What's next? Dell saying that you can't "Mod" you computer to run "Illegal" Linux kernels?
I know that some people are using the Xbox and pirating games, BUT some people are using it to develop stuff. The guys who developed the MAME for XBOX didn't really do anything illegal, they were just developing a program for a system. No more illegal than writing a Cron job IMHO. In addition, I don't remember clicking through a EULA when I booted up the Xbox for the first time... Since when Can't a mod a piece of hardware that I buy?
Or better yet, a./ poll.
Are you..
1) Under God
2) God
3) Above God
4) Who's God?
5) Under CowBoyNeil
No seriously, I think that this matter should be one that is vote on publically. It perhaps at least would make people more likely to vote. And really, if you aren't Under God, where are you? Under a bridge? Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it doesn't exist, and MOST religions (with the execption of not having one...) have a God, which you are presumably under, NOT over. A god can be anything that you worship, science, computers, religion,./, or even CowBoyNeil. I think we are all under a god, of some type.
The % of people who don't believe in any god is fairly small. Hindus, have a god, Muslims, Jews, Christians, Buddists, etc...
I personally work for a Very Large Cable provider (take a guess at a large one, think merger early this year), so I guess I know a little about how the company would be affected, etc...
Anyway, the Cable company SHOULD have been using a program to track data and bandwidth usage from their users. At our place, we can look up the top 10 bandwidth users by area, and look at their charts then. They should have seen these guys from the first week they were doing it.
Secondly, there is normally so much bandwidth in the pipe leftover it isn't even funny. The cable modems all have 10mb ethernet connections OR USB connections on the back. Even the Cisco uBRs use 10mb connections. So they aren't getting more than 10mb/sec max.
Also, take note that bandwidth doesn't cost THAT much. Not a 1/4 million anyway.... Sprint in this area is charging 159/month for their DSL lines that offer up to 8mb down/1 mb up. And I know that they are making a little money from that even. So, I am guessing that 8/1 costs them actually 50 a month.
Moreover, why doesn't it say WHAT they were doing? They mentioned illegal, but why are they just being charged for Bandwidth ganking instead of that ALONG with piracy, and acting as a Top site for movies (which they probably were), or stuff like that. You don't tear up bandwidth that much unless you are serving something...
Personally, I don't think that it cost them that much money. They should have also been watching their network closer. I am willing to bet that they LET this happen for a while, so that they could claim higher losses (geez, and I thought WorldCom was the only one misreporting things... and Enron..)
Funny, and sarcastic, but I wasn't again Linux in this post... I like linux, I was just saying that Linux has gotten bigger too, well not on Slackware, but the other distros have...
IBM's AS/400's have had chips that encrypt everything for a while now. They are actually just 486 chips on the AS/400 with special encryption instructions. I have no idea however what Intel and AMD plan to use.
Does anyone else think that the Fed Gov't will see this as a further monopoly try? Even I think that this is blatantly messed up...
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First there was child porn, then there was midget porn, now there is Panda porn. www.pandaporn.com (I don't know if that's a real site... if so, save us.)
I wonder if I could register a domain name that basically told the algorhytm for the DeCSS, wonder if I would be arrested or sued just for registering the domain...
Scary
I have plenty of failed business plans; I have a picture of Xerox, Enron, and Worldcom's accounting rooms....
Might even be able to find blueprints of the buildings downtown..
Can I get a Beowulf cluster of those ...?
Ah, haven't there been so many SciFi movies with weird stuff happening in the Sewer...
And alot of X-files episodes.
They expect to find some people living in there, but only end up interviewing a couple of bums who live there.
So they expected to find people, but only found bums? Aren't bums people too?
When I first read the headline, I thought, "Good, you shouldn't be messing around at work." Then I realized I was posting to ./ at work.
./ at work. But seriously, music can make people more productive (look into Music Therapy). If people spend 10 minutes a day downloading stuff or changing CDs, but are 10% more productive and happy in general, then that's great. I am also the same person that is up for Quake matches after work, or lunch.
I hope they don't start blocking
Good point, I agree. And I hardly myself in reality say god or anything related to it. Sorry to annoy you, didn't mean it :)
No, more because the 9th circuit wants god out of school.
It is always a sad thing to see talent leave us for the great beyond, (due to someone perhaps being in public schools reading this I dare not say Heaven).
The Who was a great band. He will be missed. Let's all reflect on those great artists of all types that have all gone, but left us with great things. This isn't a time for arguement about music and bands, but a time for reflection and mourning for this man.
I disagree, as well as does the company that makes mod chips. It isn't made for pirates. It was made to see if you could do it, and to make money (which is exactly why microsoft is in it), as well as for development...
Yea, the demos are great, but really, it can't catch on for the mass public and theatres. I love demos, but who will watch a 2 and a half hour demo and pay 8 dollars to do so...
"I'm Sorry ladies and gentlemen, but due to a small bug in Maya Realtime 2004, the theatre has crashed."
Or Better yet
"Part of our cluster is now out... but instead of compromising the movie and showing this prerendered reel, we will show the movie at 1 frame/sec for the rest of the movie, LoTR will now finish in 27 days..."
Come on people, we can't even get digital screens and real THX in all theatres, let alone renderfarms, Machiimia is crazy...
So these people want to put massive multimillion dollar renderfarms in theatres just so it can be done in real time? Sounds like a bad idea to me.
Even rendering the sound in realtime just doesn't sound feasable. Csound couldn't do a whole orchistra with voice modeling and effects in realtime on even most nice clusters...
Moreover, will the audience care? It's not like the CG actors are going to 'screw up' so it's not interesting like seeing a play. I personally don't see the point.
Well, the answer to the question of the topic is......
Never, or when StarTrek and Holodecks become reality. It's just not feasable, and with 40-70 hours a frame for current movie renders, you can't move that into 29.97 times per second for the sake of it being realtime..
But I can use a pen and paper to copy a book, and O'Riley's publishing isn't getting up in arms about that... or better yet, a "copying Machine". If Mod chips are circumention devices, how is that different?
Are u sure they could do that? Because if the person bought them before MSFT made a deal of them, and when it was ok to sell them on Ebay (MSFT hasn't said anything before about this have they?), then could they go back and get people for what they did in the past?...
Hey Intel and AMD sell their hardware for the right prices and then don't care WHAT THE HELL you do with it. It's all just a normal computer to me, Nvidia video, Intel chip... why can't I do what I want with it?
What's next? Dell saying that you can't "Mod" you computer to run "Illegal" Linux kernels?
I know that some people are using the Xbox and pirating games, BUT some people are using it to develop stuff. The guys who developed the MAME for XBOX didn't really do anything illegal, they were just developing a program for a system. No more illegal than writing a Cron job IMHO. In addition, I don't remember clicking through a EULA when I booted up the Xbox for the first time... Since when Can't a mod a piece of hardware that I buy?
What's next? Will MSFT ask ebay to ban mod chips?
Or better yet, a ./ poll.
./, or even CowBoyNeil. I think we are all under a god, of some type.
Are you..
1) Under God
2) God
3) Above God
4) Who's God?
5) Under CowBoyNeil
No seriously, I think that this matter should be one that is vote on publically. It perhaps at least would make people more likely to vote. And really, if you aren't Under God, where are you? Under a bridge? Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it doesn't exist, and MOST religions (with the execption of not having one...) have a God, which you are presumably under, NOT over. A god can be anything that you worship, science, computers, religion,
The % of people who don't believe in any god is fairly small. Hindus, have a god, Muslims, Jews, Christians, Buddists, etc...
... then you are above god? Geez, that's more egotistical than me...
I personally work for a Very Large Cable provider (take a guess at a large one, think merger early this year), so I guess I know a little about how the company would be affected, etc...
Anyway, the Cable company SHOULD have been using a program to track data and bandwidth usage from their users. At our place, we can look up the top 10 bandwidth users by area, and look at their charts then. They should have seen these guys from the first week they were doing it.
Secondly, there is normally so much bandwidth in the pipe leftover it isn't even funny. The cable modems all have 10mb ethernet connections OR USB connections on the back. Even the Cisco uBRs use 10mb connections. So they aren't getting more than 10mb/sec max.
Also, take note that bandwidth doesn't cost THAT much. Not a 1/4 million anyway.... Sprint in this area is charging 159/month for their DSL lines that offer up to 8mb down/1 mb up. And I know that they are making a little money from that even. So, I am guessing that 8/1 costs them actually 50 a month.
Moreover, why doesn't it say WHAT they were doing? They mentioned illegal, but why are they just being charged for Bandwidth ganking instead of that ALONG with piracy, and acting as a Top site for movies (which they probably were), or stuff like that. You don't tear up bandwidth that much unless you are serving something...
Personally, I don't think that it cost them that much money. They should have also been watching their network closer. I am willing to bet that they LET this happen for a while, so that they could claim higher losses (geez, and I thought WorldCom was the only one misreporting things... and Enron..)
Funny, and sarcastic, but I wasn't again Linux in this post... I like linux, I was just saying that Linux has gotten bigger too, well not on Slackware, but the other distros have...
IBM's AS/400's have had chips that encrypt everything for a while now. They are actually just 486 chips on the AS/400 with special encryption instructions. I have no idea however what Intel and AMD plan to use.
Does anyone else think that the Fed Gov't will see this as a further monopoly try? Even I think that this is blatantly messed up...
You know, Microsoft actually runs Linux on quite a few of their servers instead of NT (2K) with IIS...