If I were to look 20-30 years down the road at a U.S. ruled by DRM via laws like the SSSCA, I would have to say it would be a pretty sad place. First of all, you have a generation of people who will have grown up beleiving that its normal to have to pay for *any* kind of information, and then think its taboo to share that information.
People will collaborate less and will have learned that it's 'wrong' to pass along data or information of any kind. This kind of mentality will manifest itself in an atmosphere where it's considered morally and ethically wrong to try to do things without doing them in the approved (legal or corporate) manner. I don't see a lot of technical or scientific innovation coming from people who have this mindset.
The Dark Ages was a fairly direct result of the Catholic Church's desire to control information, in their case, religious doctrine. The crusades brutally crushed scientific, philosophical, and mathmatic progress in the middle east. Human progress came to a virtual halt for several centuries.
This is the same thing. Instead of a rich, powerful church, we have a oligarchy of rich, powerful corporations who beleive it is in their best interest to control information of any kind, be it entertainment, scientific data, math, or any kind of production algorithm. The future is grim indeed if these companies get their way.
The renaissance, the richest period of exploration and innovation in human history happened when the controls imposed by the Catholic church started to break down and both religous and scientific information began to flow freely.
Freedom of Information == Human Progress and Advancement
Proprietary Information == Fear, Paranoia, Superstition, and Human Misery
When are MS, Sony and others going to learn that any sort of system like this will be broken?
I was excited to get a sony mp3 player as a gift last year. Until I realized that it used a proprietary format, atrac3. It will only allow me to load a particular piece of music 4 times. I've even loaded the music I make on it, but I am still subjected to this limitation. HELLO, it's my music, I made it,I own the copyright.
Digital Rights Management is there only to help support the massive amount of profit that the recording industry is used to making. Well, I have a message for these people: The days of the $20 CD are long gone. Charge a fair amount of money for your product, and people will buy it. If you continue sticking it to the customer, they will break your systems and get it for free. Evolve or die. It's that simple.
Sure, Grandma isn't senile anymore, ever since the brain transplant. And so what if 98% of her body has been replaced with prosthetics at one point or another? Why, she now has a IQ of 200 and is an Olympic contender, and lord knows thats all that really matters.;P
Obviously it's too easy to get things patented these days, especially in areas of high technology as few if any patent officer workers are well versed in the areas of technology. Most of the patent office stampers would have little inclination as to how an intigrated circuit works or if an item of software recently designed is any different or unique from any other piece of similar software.
Sure, it's nice to be able to patent and protect your inventions and innovations, but when most of today's patent holders are larger corporations, it's hardly meant to protect the garage inventor anymore.
Distilling their competitive evaluation, I noticed the following themes:
There are 27 different ways of doing foo on Linux, whereas Microsoft offers a clear, standard solution.
This is true. Microsoft does tend to impose the One True Way (TM), which can simplify some things. However, other people regard the fact that you can choose the best technologies for your application as a positive.
Capability bar is available as part of Microsoft operating systems, but it's a seperate app in Linux.
Also often true, but: a) a lot of those capabilities are Windows tools that you probably wouldn't use in a Linux project unless you had to for compatibility reasons, b) a lot of them were open source packages that are usually packaged by the various distributions and are an apt-get away from installing, c) if they're open source, the extra licensing costs are zero anyway, and d) who says building everything into the OS is a good idea anyway?
Some bits of Linux are immature and buggy
And Windows is perfect?
It's good news that MS are changing their arguments to push their products over Linux-based solutions, because it tends to suggest that their customers (at least in this application domains) weren't listening to their old ones.
Its odd to see MS talking about TCO when that has been the argument that Macintosh users have been using for years for why one should use a Mac over a Wintel box.
The Gartner Group and other researchers consistantly have confirmed such, but most do not listen. We'll see if MS's huge PR engines will have better luck.
Buy a 10,000x10,000 dpi scanner with firewire interfeace Write cdrom image analysis algorithm. Scan cdrom image into temp hard drive space and analyse, extracting data
This is based on these rough figures:
A cdrom is approximately ( PI*5^2 - PI*0.75^2 )= 76.75 sq. inches of data surface If a cdrom has about 5.6 billion bits on that surface then the density is roughly 76 million bits per square inch. That works out to about 8,800 bits per linear inch. Assume you will need a little better resolution than that because there is some empty space between the dots on a cd surface. 10,000dpi aught to be good enough.
Assuming that the scanner is faster than the firewire (400Mbps) and 10% overhead for the data transfer, each cd image will be approx. 7.3 billion bits, taking just over 20 seconds to transfer. This device is a 2,466x speed CDROM "drive". Put that in your Pentium and smoke it! Scanner and algorithm design left as an excercise for the reader.
I think you can make cd drives that spin 4000x if you want, because it might be possible to put the cd in braces to hold it together, and/or to rotate the laser instead. Or how about using multiple lasers?
It's just like silicon transistors: There's always somebody saying there is a final physical limit we'll reach within the five years...
Often, we(they)'ll find a way around the limitation.
Fuck you! Haista vittu! (literally "Smell a cunt!")
_Here_ is a mirror. _Tässä_ on peili.
I agree with all previous posts except those made by anonymous cowards. Olen samaa mieltä kaikkien aiempien viestien kanssa lukuunottamatta viestejä, jotka ovat nimettömien pelkureitten kirjoittamia.
I agree with this post. Olen samaa mieltä tämän viestin kanssa.
I disagree with this post. Olen eri mieltä tämän viestin kanssa.
Icy beak rape. Jäinen nokkaraiskaus.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these. Kuvittele Beowulf-klusteri näitä.
Naked and pertified Natalie Portman covered in hot grits. Alaston ja jähmettynyt Natalie Portman maissiryynien peitossa.
This post has been claimed by the CLIT. CLIT on vallannut tämän viestin.
[something] sucks! [something] on perseestä! / [something] ovat perseestä! (pl.) (literally "[something] is from the ass!")
Propsit kaikille suomalaisille kotipojille. Nimettömät raukkiset voivat vetää vitun päähänsä. Itse aisassa kaikki vääriä kieliä puhuvat Slashdotin lukijat voivat vetää itsensä kiikkuun!
Slashdot Mirror
...hilarity will surly ensue.
If I were to look 20-30 years down the road at a U.S. ruled by DRM via laws like the SSSCA, I would have to say it would be a pretty sad place. First of all, you have a generation of people who will have grown up beleiving that its normal to have to pay for *any* kind of information, and then think its taboo to share that information.
People will collaborate less and will have learned that it's 'wrong' to pass along data or information of any kind. This kind of mentality will manifest itself in an atmosphere where it's considered morally and ethically wrong to try to do things without doing them in the approved (legal or corporate) manner. I don't see a lot of technical or scientific innovation coming from people who have this mindset.
The Dark Ages was a fairly direct result of the Catholic Church's desire to control information, in their case, religious doctrine. The crusades brutally crushed scientific, philosophical, and mathmatic progress in the middle east. Human progress came to a virtual halt for several centuries.
This is the same thing. Instead of a rich, powerful church, we have a oligarchy of rich, powerful corporations who beleive it is in their best interest to control information of any kind, be it entertainment, scientific data, math, or any kind of production algorithm. The future is grim indeed if these companies get their way.
The renaissance, the richest period of exploration and innovation in human history happened when the controls imposed by the Catholic church started to break down and both religous and scientific information began to flow freely.
Freedom of Information == Human Progress and Advancement
Proprietary Information == Fear, Paranoia, Superstition, and Human Misery
As Thomas Jefferson said, "The price of Copy Protection Schemes is eternal vigilence and endless lawsuits."
When are MS, Sony and others going to learn that any sort of system like this will be broken?
I was excited to get a sony mp3 player as a gift last year. Until I realized that it used a proprietary format, atrac3. It will only allow me to load a particular piece of music 4 times. I've even loaded the music I make on it, but I am still subjected to this limitation. HELLO, it's my music, I made it,I own the copyright.
Digital Rights Management is there only to help support the massive amount of profit that the recording industry is used to making. Well, I have a message for these people: The days of the $20 CD are long gone. Charge a fair amount of money for your product, and people will buy it. If you continue sticking it to the customer, they will break your systems and get it for free. Evolve or die. It's that simple.
Sure, Grandma isn't senile anymore, ever since the brain transplant. And so what if 98% of her body has been replaced with prosthetics at one point or another? Why, she now has a IQ of 200 and is an Olympic contender, and lord knows thats all that really matters. ;P
Last year in a show of how easy it was to disrupt and abuse the patent process by registering a common, every-day idea a Melbourne lawyer patented a "circular transportation facilitation device" with more info on the story here, here(pdf file), and here
Obviously it's too easy to get things patented these days, especially in areas of high technology as few if any patent officer workers are well versed in the areas of technology. Most of the patent office stampers would have little inclination as to how an intigrated circuit works or if an item of software recently designed is any different or unique from any other piece of similar software.
Sure, it's nice to be able to patent and protect your inventions and innovations, but when most of today's patent holders are larger corporations, it's hardly meant to protect the garage inventor anymore.
This is true. Microsoft does tend to impose the One True Way (TM), which can simplify some things. However, other people regard the fact that you can choose the best technologies for your application as a positive.
Also often true, but: a) a lot of those capabilities are Windows tools that you probably wouldn't use in a Linux project unless you had to for compatibility reasons, b) a lot of them were open source packages that are usually packaged by the various distributions and are an apt-get away from installing, c) if they're open source, the extra licensing costs are zero anyway, and d) who says building everything into the OS is a good idea anyway?
And Windows is perfect?
It's good news that MS are changing their arguments to push their products over Linux-based solutions, because it tends to suggest that their customers (at least in this application domains) weren't listening to their old ones.
Its odd to see MS talking about TCO when that has been the argument that Macintosh users have been using for years for why one should use a Mac over a Wintel box.
The Gartner Group and other researchers consistantly have confirmed such, but most do not listen. We'll see if MS's huge PR engines will have better luck.
Boycott Slashdot meetup!
This is a good way to get a fast CDROM drive:
Buy a 10,000x10,000 dpi scanner with firewire interfeace
Write cdrom image analysis algorithm.
Scan cdrom image into temp hard drive space and analyse, extracting data
This is based on these rough figures:
A cdrom is approximately ( PI*5^2 - PI*0.75^2 )= 76.75 sq. inches of data surface
If a cdrom has about 5.6 billion bits on that surface then the density is roughly 76 million bits per square inch.
That works out to about 8,800 bits per linear inch. Assume you will need a little better resolution than that because there is some empty space between the dots on a cd surface. 10,000dpi aught to be good enough.
Assuming that the scanner is faster than the firewire (400Mbps) and 10% overhead for the data transfer, each cd image will be approx. 7.3 billion bits, taking just over 20 seconds to transfer. This device is a 2,466x speed CDROM "drive". Put that in your Pentium and smoke it! Scanner and algorithm design left as an excercise for the reader.
I think you can make cd drives that spin 4000x if you want, because it might be possible to put the cd in braces to hold it together, and/or to rotate the laser instead. Or how about using multiple lasers?
It's just like silicon transistors: There's always somebody saying there is a final physical limit we'll reach within the five years...
Often, we(they)'ll find a way around the limitation.
Osama Bin Laden has his priorities straight.
If that is your name, your parents must have hated you.
bring it into your cellar, get some lighter fluid, douse the box with it and light
Yes, that sounds really intelligent.
My page is still a little too narrow, could you make it a couple of screenfuls wider?
English: Yes.
Finnish: Kyllä.
The practical English-Finnish Dictionary for trolls, V0.5 Released 12th July 2001 (c) Anonymous Cowfart
All anonymous cowards can go to hell.
Kaikki nimettömät pelkurit voivat painua helvettiin.
Anonymous coward
Nimetön pelkuri / Nimettömät pelkurit (pl.)
Dirty GNU-hippie.
Likainen GNU-hippi.
First Post!
Ensimmäinen viesti!
Fuck you!
Haista vittu! (literally "Smell a cunt!")
_Here_ is a mirror.
_Tässä_ on peili.
I agree with all previous posts except those made by anonymous cowards.
Olen samaa mieltä kaikkien aiempien viestien kanssa lukuunottamatta viestejä, jotka ovat nimettömien pelkureitten kirjoittamia.
I agree with this post.
Olen samaa mieltä tämän viestin kanssa.
I disagree with this post.
Olen eri mieltä tämän viestin kanssa.
Icy beak rape.
Jäinen nokkaraiskaus.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these.
Kuvittele Beowulf-klusteri näitä.
Naked and pertified Natalie Portman covered in hot grits.
Alaston ja jähmettynyt Natalie Portman maissiryynien peitossa.
This post has been claimed by the CLIT.
CLIT on vallannut tämän viestin.
[something] sucks!
[something] on perseestä! / [something] ovat perseestä! (pl.) (literally "[something] is from the ass!")
Ei Vois Vähempää Kiinnostaa!
Ensimmäinen suomenkielinen viesti!
Propsit kaikille suomalaisille kotipojille. Nimettömät raukkiset voivat vetää vitun päähänsä. Itse aisassa kaikki vääriä kieliä puhuvat Slashdotin lukijat voivat vetää itsensä kiikkuun!
Sauna Sisu ja Sibelius!
+1, informative
How long will it take for this thread to be bitchslapped?
See here
Congratulations, you have won the "You got the joke, dumbass"-award.
IAgreeWithThisPost
Sorry, you lose, for I have the first post.