The natural first thing to think is "how can I fix this so it doesn't send any information?" However, my question is "how can I hack this so that every time it sends, it adds another 50,000 to the number of times the file has been copied?"
Unfortunately, shipping thousands of televisions to poorer countries probably wouldn't cheap. If we were going to blow big bucks delivering goods to poorer countries, there are plenty of things I can think of that would be better than old televisions. It's not a question of the US being high minded enough.
Yes, you do have the right to draw on your legally purchased print of the Mona Lisa. However, I think the problem the directors are facing (using this analogy) is that you then show off and resell that print as "DaVinci's Mona Lisa" when in reality it is "BoyPlankton's __(insert your name for it here)."
The directors are mad because their work is being changed, then remarketed as their work.
Its no wonder that the Rabbit system failed. Requiring a mobile phone user to be within 100 meters of a station is extremely limiting. The idea of a mobile phone is that you can use it far from the receiving antenna. There are cordless phones on the market that have ranges of nearly 100 meters from their base station. The Rabbit idea sounds horrible.
I found a link in the article to be almost as interesting as the article itself. This is a link to Saul Greenberg's site at the University of Calgary where he has a collection of user interfaces, most of which have been designed by his students and include video examples.
Here It Is
I've been testing six of these systems on my Compaq Presario 7000, running Windows Me: the I/OMagic PC PVR ($50), the AVerTV Studio ($90), the Hauppauge WinTV PVR 250 ($149), the Pinnacle Bungee DVD ($199), the ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 8500 DV ($249) and the Nvidia Personal Cinema ($299).
I can only be impressed to a certain point if he's using Me for anything.
Though I'm excited at the idea of seeing Douglas Adams' books turned into movies, I don't believe they will convey his greatest strength. My favorite part of reading Douglas Adams' books is his descriptions of characters and events. His humor lies in his witty descriptions and observations as much or more than his character's dialog.
For example, how do you convey the idea of 2 million people saying "Whomp" at the same time on film? His silly details like this are, in my opinion, what made his books so much fun to read. You lose the ability to make observations like that in a movie. I liked Douglas Adams for his unique and funny narration of his stories. Unless the movie has a voice-over narrator, I just can't see all of his humor coming across.
Artists aren't the only ones who make an effort...
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RIAA Smacked by DoS
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· Score: 2, Interesting
On Thursday, the RIAA endorsed a bill written by Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif., that would authorize copyright holders to begin "blocking, diverting or otherwise impairing" peer-to-peer networks.
RIAA CEO Hilary Rosen said in a statement that Berman's bill was "an innovative approach," adding that "it makes sense to clarify existing laws to ensure that copyright owners--those who actually take the time and effort to create an artistic work--are at least able to defend their works from mass piracy."
What about all of the programmers who actually take the time and effort to establish worldwide networks where people can directly share information? Who is the RIAA to decide which person's effort is worth more?
We're not moving to a 64-bit index for the next few years. We're a lot
more likely to make PAGE_SIZE bigger, and generally praying that AMD's
x86-64 succeeds in the market, forcing Intel to make Yamhill their
standard platform. At which point we _could_ make things truly 64 bits
(the size pressure on "struct page" is largely due to HIGHMEM, and gcc
does fine on 64-bit platforms).
It sounds to me like he's praying for standardization of the 64 bit architecture, not the success of the AMD Hammer.
Re:Why the need for ROMs?
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Borrowing ROMs
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Are people really that lazy that they won't go to a local video game store which sells old games?
Yes.
However, laziness isn't the only reason for the popularity of emulators and ROMs. Anyone who has owned an original NES system knows that oftentimes, even after only a year of use, they start to require multiple attempts before a game properly loads. I can't even count the number of times I've had to pick up the Nintendo and blow into it (to the point of hyperventilation) just to remove enough dust (or so I thought) that the game would load properly. The main selling point of ROMS to me is that they work every time, which can hardly be said for a 20 year old Nintendo.
While it's unclear what Biden hopes to accomplish with his new bill, it is clear that it's forward-looking: Consumers soon will be offered more and more hardware devices that rely on electronic watermarks, digital signatures, or other cryptographic means to thwart piracy and improve security.
Just because consumers will be offered more and more copy-protection enabled hardware, this does not mean that consumers will buy more and more copy-protection enabled hardware. Why am I going to buy a new MP3 player that will only allow me to play mp3s with watermarks when my current 20 gig iPod will be sufficient enough for me to listen to music until it mechanically fails (which could be in 40 years)?
If you are capable of producing their work in a short amount of time, clearly you have an idea of how it can be implemented. Sit down with each one individually and get to finer details of their roles. Help write pseudocode, if necessary, and then let them actually bang it out. I'm suggesting, in a way, that you do it all yourself without quite doing it all yourself.
If anyone who has copyrighted material on the internet can attack a server to prevent the distribution, what will it mean for Google's humongous (and often convenient) cache of stored webpages?
Is this really that useful?
Anywhere I go where I would need to charge my cell phone, I can bring my much-smaller-and-easier version that plugs into a wall. If I ever go anywhere that doesn't have a wall plug or car cigarette lighter, chances are I don't get a signal anyway.
Slashdot Mirror
Just to fuck with 'em.
Unfortunately, shipping thousands of televisions to poorer countries probably wouldn't cheap. If we were going to blow big bucks delivering goods to poorer countries, there are plenty of things I can think of that would be better than old televisions. It's not a question of the US being high minded enough.
A beer is 12 ounces.
The directors are mad because their work is being changed, then remarketed as their work.
Its no wonder that the Rabbit system failed. Requiring a mobile phone user to be within 100 meters of a station is extremely limiting. The idea of a mobile phone is that you can use it far from the receiving antenna. There are cordless phones on the market that have ranges of nearly 100 meters from their base station. The Rabbit idea sounds horrible.
I found a link in the article to be almost as interesting as the article itself. This is a link to Saul Greenberg's site at the University of Calgary where he has a collection of user interfaces, most of which have been designed by his students and include video examples. Here It Is
Judging by the diagram, this means that the Earth is getting shorter and fatter. Is this news? Thats what happens when you get older...
For example, how do you convey the idea of 2 million people saying "Whomp" at the same time on film? His silly details like this are, in my opinion, what made his books so much fun to read. You lose the ability to make observations like that in a movie. I liked Douglas Adams for his unique and funny narration of his stories. Unless the movie has a voice-over narrator, I just can't see all of his humor coming across.
What about all of the programmers who actually take the time and effort to establish worldwide networks where people can directly share information? Who is the RIAA to decide which person's effort is worth more?
It sounds to me like he's praying for standardization of the 64 bit architecture, not the success of the AMD Hammer.
However, laziness isn't the only reason for the popularity of emulators and ROMs. Anyone who has owned an original NES system knows that oftentimes, even after only a year of use, they start to require multiple attempts before a game properly loads. I can't even count the number of times I've had to pick up the Nintendo and blow into it (to the point of hyperventilation) just to remove enough dust (or so I thought) that the game would load properly. The main selling point of ROMS to me is that they work every time, which can hardly be said for a 20 year old Nintendo.
Just because consumers will be offered more and more copy-protection enabled hardware, this does not mean that consumers will buy more and more copy-protection enabled hardware. Why am I going to buy a new MP3 player that will only allow me to play mp3s with watermarks when my current 20 gig iPod will be sufficient enough for me to listen to music until it mechanically fails (which could be in 40 years)?
Its an interesting paradox that the nerdiest of computer geeks are programming robots to interact socially...
These people are the most qualified and least qualified at the same time!
If you are capable of producing their work in a short amount of time, clearly you have an idea of how it can be implemented. Sit down with each one individually and get to finer details of their roles. Help write pseudocode, if necessary, and then let them actually bang it out. I'm suggesting, in a way, that you do it all yourself without quite doing it all yourself.
Are there any mirrors where the pictures aren't on a games site? "Games" is a blocked category for my internet access at work.
If anyone who has copyrighted material on the internet can attack a server to prevent the distribution, what will it mean for Google's humongous (and often convenient) cache of stored webpages?
Is this really that useful? Anywhere I go where I would need to charge my cell phone, I can bring my much-smaller-and-easier version that plugs into a wall. If I ever go anywhere that doesn't have a wall plug or car cigarette lighter, chances are I don't get a signal anyway.
Paired a 17 inch one of these, the oQo computer mentioned yesterday may be a good deal cooler.