During the CES keynote, Bill Gates talked about how excited he was to assist content providers with rights management facilities.. (Conan actually cracked a joke about what he said! Unfortunately, the stiff crowd didn't laugh..) Why is Microsoft, as an OS provider, so eager to develop DRM technology for Longhorn instead of focusing on security/user-facing features?
Apple, Linux, BSD, Solaris, etc... are not trying to 'innovate' in the OS/DRM realm... What value add does DRM bring to the consumer?
We can encrypt the content on the DVD! (oh.. that didn't work)
We can automatically install a driver on Windows machines to make the disc un-rippable (oh.. that didn't work either!)
We can add a special time-code that prevents ripping... (Defeated by a marker!)
Seriously.. when will these guys give up? Go after the people selling the shit on the streets and leave the consumers alone..
I kinda wish one of the questions drilled him on Microsoft's DRM strategy. I'd like to know what their 'official' motivation is for pushing DRM onto their customers, and whether they believe that intellectual property is more valuable than fair use...
*sigh* Maybe I'll hold my questions for the next 'ask slashdot'.. or.. maybe he'll email me!;)
Is it just me or has motorola really made a come back with their industrial design? This unit looks great!
Some initial questions:
- Is there any word on what the iTunes interface looks like? - Do we know what kind of removable memory it has? (What is TransFlash??)
- Will it DRM the music files so you can't transfer them back over bluetooth (is it a one-way sync?)
- Is the Bluetooth 2.0?
I know, it's about something else.. but the meaning still applies..
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
I kinda wish I could work 4 days a week, for 3-4 hours a day.. I'd be much more productive during my time (to get stuff done) and would do the whole slashdot thing at home.. I think the company would actually get more out of me if the work week was broken up into smaller chunks.. *shrug*
Where did the whole idea of 9-5 / m-f come from anyway?
I've done my part.. if you have writers block, use this as an example:
To: Tecmo Public Relations, Tecmo Legal Department, Tecmo Employees
I feel that the actions your company is taking against www.ninjahacker.com are both irresponsible and unnecessary. Game modification has been a part of the gaming community for years. "Hacked" (or modified) games create a dynamic game experience and allows the user to be connected to other fans
of the game.
The damage being done on your company's image by continuing with this lawsuit surpasses any damage caused by ninjahacker.com. Read some of the comments from
your fans here:
Our society was once a mecca for freedom, however, frivolous lawsuits like this only work to limit the freedoms consumers have. I hope your company realizes the potential impact this law suit will have. Your company will be limiting the freedoms of your customers and will be setting a legal precedent for the rest of the game industry.
As a consumer, I avoid companies that are opposed to freedom.
Sincerely,
Andrew Leeper (an ex-DoA and Ninja Gaiden fan)
me -at- nivenhuh.net
I don't know why you'd take a large desktop over a smaller form factor machine if you can get equivalent power out of the smaller machine.. As we start to get higher and higher performance out of smaller equipment (eg. laptop drives, etc..) I think smaller machines will be the norm.
I live in SF, so I'm anxious to have machines that take up less space =)
I'm by far not a pro-web developer...
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"Could this be the end of lazy IE-only scripted webpages?"
What's the authoritative source for making sure you have a 'browser friendly' page up? I've always used W3C to ensure my code is valid, but I run into problems with my page rendering differently on each browser.. =/ Is this because each browser interprets the standard differently?
The innovation is shown with the new 'autofill' feature. No other company has made a flash player that can be randomly filled up with your most listened to songs.. *shrug* It makes sense to me..
W00T here as well!
nivenhuh@trecko nivenhuh $./blah.pl
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nivenhuh@trecko nivenhuh $ uname -a
Linux trecko 2.4.20-gentoo-r8 #2 Sat Nov 15 15:26:09 CST 2003 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
Ah.. thanks! Like I said, I was probably way off on a lot of my speculations.. but I figured the slashdot crowd would help clarify my.. inaccuracies..;)
Actually.. from what I learned in my Astronomy classes, adding substances to the sun can drastically change how quickly nuclear fusion occurs within the core. Then again, we were talking about adding substances on a MUCH larger scale.. so.. it may/may not have an effect.. I'll continue to speculate:
Basically, this is how nuclear fusion happens within the sun:
- The individual elements are attracted to one another by gravity
- The elements try to crunch onto one another
- The crunching gets so tight that it generates heat because they can no longer move freely
- The 'crunch area' gets so hot that the elements bind together (fusion)
The sun is mostly comprised of simple elements (Usually 97%+ Hydrogen, 2.5%+ Helium,.5% other stuff).. so there's no telling what would happen if we were to add massive elements into the mix.. It seems like it would screw the balance up.. The laws of gravity tell us that the Hydrogen, Helium, and other elements would be attracted to the more massive element.
This might speed up the rate of fusion because the hydrogen particles that normally collapse on each other (or onto it's Helium core) would be attracted to the new, more massive element. The hydrogen would also condense at a much faster rate because the increased gravatational force caused by the more massive element.
This is just my speculation.. someone please correct me on anything I might be wrong on.. I always appreciate being corrected.. =)
Other than not having a support contract, I don't know why you wouldn't want to run it on a production server. Like many others on this article have stated, Gentoo is extremely simple to update, is very light-weight (install only what you need), and is simple to administer..
Linux is Linux.. you're using the same nuts and bolts reguardless of what distribution you're running..
Perhaps because the iPod isn't DRM'ed? If you read everybody elses comments.. you'll see that it's relatively trivial to copy files off of the iPod through the finder, terminal, or through windows explorer.
Hey.. I remember LORD.. and always trying to score with Violet.. She.. always slapped me. It didn't stop me from trying again the next day.. Oh the good ol' days at the Inn..
I liked it when the BBS sysops would let you try to score with her multiple times in one day..
Hehe.. I have 'other' stuff at home as well.. (athlon xp 2800+ and a 3.4ghz p4 with HT.. both running Gentoo..) They only get turned on when I game (ut2k4 or doom3).. Otherwise that.. I'm always on my PowerBook..;)
Actually.. I started working at Apple because of my experience with the OS.. I fell in love when I used it for admin work at my previous job.. and lucked out when I was seeking out my next "unix admin" role..:D
I live up about 8 blocks from there.. I didn't wanna bother with competing though.. i mean.. what's the point when there are SOO many people? It almost seems like it'd lose it's fun..
Slashdot Mirror
During the CES keynote, Bill Gates talked about how excited he was to assist content providers with rights management facilities.. (Conan actually cracked a joke about what he said! Unfortunately, the stiff crowd didn't laugh..) Why is Microsoft, as an OS provider, so eager to develop DRM technology for Longhorn instead of focusing on security/user-facing features?
Apple, Linux, BSD, Solaris, etc... are not trying to 'innovate' in the OS/DRM realm... What value add does DRM bring to the consumer?
We can encrypt the content on the DVD! (oh.. that didn't work)
We can automatically install a driver on Windows machines to make the disc un-rippable (oh.. that didn't work either!)
We can add a special time-code that prevents ripping... (Defeated by a marker!)
Seriously.. when will these guys give up? Go after the people selling the shit on the streets and leave the consumers alone..
I kinda wish one of the questions drilled him on Microsoft's DRM strategy. I'd like to know what their 'official' motivation is for pushing DRM onto their customers, and whether they believe that intellectual property is more valuable than fair use...
.. maybe he'll email me! ;)
*sigh* Maybe I'll hold my questions for the next 'ask slashdot'.. or
Is it just me or has motorola really made a come back with their industrial design? This unit looks great!
Some initial questions:
- Is there any word on what the iTunes interface looks like?
- Do we know what kind of removable memory it has? (What is TransFlash??)
- Will it DRM the music files so you can't transfer them back over bluetooth (is it a one-way sync?)
- Is the Bluetooth 2.0?
I know, it's about something else.. but the meaning still applies..
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Sadly, it is perishing.. *shrug*
I kinda wish I could work 4 days a week, for 3-4 hours a day.. I'd be much more productive during my time (to get stuff done) and would do the whole slashdot thing at home.. I think the company would actually get more out of me if the work week was broken up into smaller chunks.. *shrug*
Where did the whole idea of 9-5 / m-f come from anyway?
contact@tecmoinc.com
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I've done my part.. if you have writers block, use this as an example:
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To: Tecmo Public Relations, Tecmo Legal Department, Tecmo Employees
I feel that the actions your company is taking against www.ninjahacker.com are both irresponsible and unnecessary. Game modification has been a part of the gaming community for years. "Hacked" (or modified) games create a dynamic game experience and allows the user to be connected to other fans of the game.
The damage being done on your company's image by continuing with this lawsuit surpasses any damage caused by ninjahacker.com. Read some of the comments from your fans here:
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/10
Our society was once a mecca for freedom, however, frivolous lawsuits like this only work to limit the freedoms consumers have. I hope your company realizes the potential impact this law suit will have. Your company will be limiting the freedoms of your customers and will be setting a legal precedent for the rest of the game industry.
As a consumer, I avoid companies that are opposed to freedom.
Sincerely, Andrew Leeper (an ex-DoA and Ninja Gaiden fan) me -at- nivenhuh.net
I also found that this picture makes a great desktop wallpaper...
Kudos to the guy photographing this stuff.. He took some pretty good shots!
A slashdot link on Apple.com
I don't know why you'd take a large desktop over a smaller form factor machine if you can get equivalent power out of the smaller machine.. As we start to get higher and higher performance out of smaller equipment (eg. laptop drives, etc..) I think smaller machines will be the norm.
I live in SF, so I'm anxious to have machines that take up less space =)
"Could this be the end of lazy IE-only scripted webpages?"
What's the authoritative source for making sure you have a 'browser friendly' page up? I've always used W3C to ensure my code is valid, but I run into problems with my page rendering differently on each browser.. =/ Is this because each browser interprets the standard differently?
The innovation is shown with the new 'autofill' feature. No other company has made a flash player that can be randomly filled up with your most listened to songs.. *shrug* It makes sense to me..
I should have used the preview button =(
./blah.pl
nivenhuh@trecko nivenhuh $
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nivenhuh@trecko nivenhuh $ uname -a
Linux trecko 2.4.20-gentoo-r8 #2 Sat Nov 15 15:26:09 CST 2003 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
W00T here as well! nivenhuh@trecko nivenhuh $ ./blah.pl
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nivenhuh@trecko nivenhuh $ uname -a
Linux trecko 2.4.20-gentoo-r8 #2 Sat Nov 15 15:26:09 CST 2003 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
*cough* apple-s at the boot menu will bring you into single-user mode.. (command-line) It's useful if you know what to troubleshoot..
Ah.. thanks! Like I said, I was probably way off on a lot of my speculations.. but I figured the slashdot crowd would help clarify my.. inaccuracies.. ;)
Actually.. from what I learned in my Astronomy classes, adding substances to the sun can drastically change how quickly nuclear fusion occurs within the core. Then again, we were talking about adding substances on a MUCH larger scale.. so.. it may/may not have an effect.. I'll continue to speculate:
.5% other stuff).. so there's no telling what would happen if we were to add massive elements into the mix.. It seems like it would screw the balance up.. The laws of gravity tell us that the Hydrogen, Helium, and other elements would be attracted to the more massive element.
Basically, this is how nuclear fusion happens within the sun:
- The individual elements are attracted to one another by gravity
- The elements try to crunch onto one another
- The crunching gets so tight that it generates heat because they can no longer move freely
- The 'crunch area' gets so hot that the elements bind together (fusion)
The sun is mostly comprised of simple elements (Usually 97%+ Hydrogen, 2.5%+ Helium,
This might speed up the rate of fusion because the hydrogen particles that normally collapse on each other (or onto it's Helium core) would be attracted to the new, more massive element. The hydrogen would also condense at a much faster rate because the increased gravatational force caused by the more massive element.
This is just my speculation.. someone please correct me on anything I might be wrong on.. I always appreciate being corrected.. =)
Wow.. a lot of heat coming from an AC.. *shrug*
Other than not having a support contract, I don't know why you wouldn't want to run it on a production server. Like many others on this article have stated, Gentoo is extremely simple to update, is very light-weight (install only what you need), and is simple to administer..
Linux is Linux.. you're using the same nuts and bolts reguardless of what distribution you're running..
Ahh.. much like SCO?
Perhaps because the iPod isn't DRM'ed? If you read everybody elses comments.. you'll see that it's relatively trivial to copy files off of the iPod through the finder, terminal, or through windows explorer.
*shrug* somebody in line here didn't have the same address anymore and the polling-person didn't give em any grief at all..
Hey.. I remember LORD.. and always trying to score with Violet.. She.. always slapped me. It didn't stop me from trying again the next day.. Oh the good ol' days at the Inn..
I liked it when the BBS sysops would let you try to score with her multiple times in one day..
*re-reads his post* Wow.. I am a looser..
Hehe.. I have 'other' stuff at home as well.. (athlon xp 2800+ and a 3.4ghz p4 with HT.. both running Gentoo..) They only get turned on when I game (ut2k4 or doom3).. Otherwise that.. I'm always on my PowerBook.. ;)
Actually.. I started working at Apple because of my experience with the OS.. I fell in love when I used it for admin work at my previous job.. and lucked out when I was seeking out my next "unix admin" role.. :D
I live up about 8 blocks from there.. I didn't wanna bother with competing though.. i mean.. what's the point when there are SOO many people? It almost seems like it'd lose it's fun..