Why would you want to bother keeping an anachronistic collection of shiny discs, when you could have anything you want, instantly.
Because I don't want to pay each time I watch a movie, and what you describe is the MPAA wet-dream of PPV. I'd rather be able to watch it when, and as often, as I wish having paid only once upfront.
There should be a national drawing. Two capsules in the glass bowl, one labeled BluRay, the other HD-DVD. The President goes on during a commercial break in Prime-Time, draws one and announces the winner. Every consumer then buys that format exclusively, which ensures that all media will be produced for it. End of problem, and certainly much better than what's going to happen otherwise.
If you were to put together a comprehensive profit-and-loss statement for IE, there would be a zero in the profits column and billions in the losses column--billions.
A browser is a Java Execution Environment capable of executing local and remotely stored programs. That's what Microsoft wants to ensure they retain control over. Otherwise you could write in Java and run it on any device that can support FireFox and cut out Microsoft entirely.
"We believe that there are subtle, short- and long-range word or even word string repetitions that exist in human texts, but not in many classes of computer-generated texts that can be used to discriminate based on meaning."
Do robots make typos? Do they make the same typos each time, or different ones?
To just arbitrarily push for legislation that would make things like this illegal just seems like it's going against progress, and would do nothing but keep me from getting the proper high-bandwidth distribution options I want to see on the market. I can't think of any better way to encourage development of high-speed services, including high-speed MANs (Metropolitan Area Networks)..
I think I should be the one to decide how the bandwidth I pay for should be allocated, and not the service provider who does not necessarily have my best interests at heart. If I want it to give priority to high-bandwidth service within the ISP let that be my choice. If I'd rather have good service from outside their network, or give highest priority to my own VoIP provider, let me decide that -- not them!
For those of you who have forgotten, Microsoft intended for these shortages to happen. They allocated units and set pricing to make this happen. This scheme was leaked out before the 360 even went on sale. They priced and shipped it to get the headlines: New Microsoft XBox 360 Sells Out on First Day. Best publicity they could arrange.
Yeah, Microsoft doesn't screw us enough already. They should do it more, more I tell you.
And raise the price of gasoline again while you're at it. Only rich people and hard-core drivers should be out on the roads. Higher prices for everything! That's what we need!!
There are times when Google is just too nice in caving into the loons out there in society. This is one of those times. It was an original piece of work. A new interpretation. And they should have left it up.
So the few "lucky" ones who own a 360 right now get snowed and end up with a totally inferior product within months.
I could say the same thing about early adopters of Apple Intel-based Macs. In a few months (Q3 latest) a much improved processor with 64-bit processing and Virtualization Technology will replace the current Core Duo models, at likely the same price. It happens all over.
I don't agree. We don't need TiVo to have DVR's. And with the way TiVo is both trying to force their units (patents at least) on all other competitors, and keeps caving into the content industry (automatic deletions, no 30-second commercial skip without a hack that may be closed on any forced update) I foresee a TiVo-based future of ever higher prices for ever less control over one's content.
It strikes me that if you ever get one secret list of numbers the whole system is broken because you can perform every addition correctly now. So Felten must be describing a system of breaking it when no secret numbers are known, unlike what some other posters have theorized where getting 40 companies to release their secret numbers would have been required. But read the Wikipedia article on HDCP for a good discussion of how they try to protect against this.
I once heard a Secret defined as: Something you tell only one person at a time.
Too many people have to know this secret to keep it secret. Especially since once you have one secret set of numbers (which could be traced back to the leaker), you should be able to generate an equivalent set not belonging to anyone.
Wikipedia says that Key Revocation is part of the standard, which means that it's possible to determine just who is on the other end somehow by the way the keys are added up. But can this be effectively used in the real world? If someone breaks the key list in, say, Sony televisions, can they truly, suddenly, disable tens of thousands of expensive television sets from receiving future content without massive consumer backlash? Can Sony afford to "repair" all the compromised sets?
Seems to me that, in the real world, any attempt to actually enforce this protection, which is eventually bound to leak out anyway, can only succeed by destroying your customer base in the process. Not that the idiots attempting this aren't foolish enough to actually try it.
That broke down to $32.66 million in lost profits from sales of set-top boxes -- $169.50 per box.
Yeah, I've long felt TiVos are rather over-priced. Now I know it for sure.
But now did this happen? From the fly on the wall.
TiVo 1: What does a VCR do?
Tivo 2: Record at preset times, fast forward, rewind, visually skip through unwanted material.
Tivo Lawyer: You can patent that simply by changing VCR to DVR.
Patent Office: Wow! Another new, unobvious innovation in the television market!
but may reflect a common lack of knowledge of what a 'beta' release really is:
I think people thought they understood what their Apple is. It just works! With Apple having such a tight rein over both the OS and the H/W, plus the legend Apple promotes, I think it's quite reasonable for an Apple user to believe if it runs on one Mac, it runs on all Macs.
Obviously not the case here, but I'm not ready to blame the users for not knowing what a 'Beta' release is. Apple is the computer for the rest of us who don't want to know what a beta is, or what it means.
It doesn't really matter what Apple is saying about Boot Camp now in the fine print. That can't be expected to outweigh what they've been saying all along about their computers otherwise. Sorry Apple, it should have worked, or you shouldn't have released it. That's your legacy.
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And I'm not referring to the On-Line Dating sites.
I guess now, on the Internet they will know you're a dog.
What I see is Apple's lawyers descending on Slashdot for revealing their latest "Trade Secret".
Because I don't want to pay each time I watch a movie, and what you describe is the MPAA wet-dream of PPV. I'd rather be able to watch it when, and as often, as I wish having paid only once upfront.
There should be a national drawing. Two capsules in the glass bowl, one labeled BluRay, the other HD-DVD. The President goes on during a commercial break in Prime-Time, draws one and announces the winner. Every consumer then buys that format exclusively, which ensures that all media will be produced for it. End of problem, and certainly much better than what's going to happen otherwise.
It would serve them right to both lose. Then we might get some format everyone agreed on from the beginning.
Brinke Stevens -- my nomination for favorite Final Girl.
A browser is a Java Execution Environment capable of executing local and remotely stored programs. That's what Microsoft wants to ensure they retain control over. Otherwise you could write in Java and run it on any device that can support FireFox and cut out Microsoft entirely.
Do robots make typos? Do they make the same typos each time, or different ones?
Therein lies the true heart of a proper detector.
I think I should be the one to decide how the bandwidth I pay for should be allocated, and not the service provider who does not necessarily have my best interests at heart. If I want it to give priority to high-bandwidth service within the ISP let that be my choice. If I'd rather have good service from outside their network, or give highest priority to my own VoIP provider, let me decide that -- not them!
For those of you who have forgotten, Microsoft intended for these shortages to happen. They allocated units and set pricing to make this happen. This scheme was leaked out before the 360 even went on sale. They priced and shipped it to get the headlines: New Microsoft XBox 360 Sells Out on First Day. Best publicity they could arrange.
And raise the price of gasoline again while you're at it. Only rich people and hard-core drivers should be out on the roads. Higher prices for everything! That's what we need!!
(Glad I got my copy of it while I could.)
I could say the same thing about early adopters of Apple Intel-based Macs. In a few months (Q3 latest) a much improved processor with 64-bit processing and Virtualization Technology will replace the current Core Duo models, at likely the same price. It happens all over.
It's all vaporware. Vaporware until it actually ships -- if ever.
And in Microsoft's case, it's vaporware until version 3.0 at least.
Or until they buy a company that already knows how to do it properly.
What can kill Dell is trying to become too much like Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart is not the home of quality products.
Easy to find out. Sell one competative, AMD-based, Dell supported, model and see how it turns out.
A rational business would trial this.
A rich business can afford to test this.
Only a stupid business would avoid this.
I mean, it's not like asking Ford to put Chevy engines into their Mustangs because that's not what consumers are demanding.
Consumers are demanding AMD processors. I know this because that's what I'm demanding.
I don't mean a brain, that's a no-brainer.
As the 'Newest Commissioner', does Deborah Tate even have a "bully pulpit"?
The catastrophic results of merging Microsoft and Linux?
The hilarious results of merging Intel and AMD.
The unexpected results of merging a spinning Steve Jobs (Intel is Evil/Intel is the best, brightest, future of Apple) and the O'Reilly No-Spin Zone.
Those I'd buy tickets for.
I don't agree. We don't need TiVo to have DVR's. And with the way TiVo is both trying to force their units (patents at least) on all other competitors, and keeps caving into the content industry (automatic deletions, no 30-second commercial skip without a hack that may be closed on any forced update) I foresee a TiVo-based future of ever higher prices for ever less control over one's content.
YMMV.
I once heard a Secret defined as: Something you tell only one person at a time.
Too many people have to know this secret to keep it secret. Especially since once you have one secret set of numbers (which could be traced back to the leaker), you should be able to generate an equivalent set not belonging to anyone.
Wikipedia says that Key Revocation is part of the standard, which means that it's possible to determine just who is on the other end somehow by the way the keys are added up. But can this be effectively used in the real world? If someone breaks the key list in, say, Sony televisions, can they truly, suddenly, disable tens of thousands of expensive television sets from receiving future content without massive consumer backlash? Can Sony afford to "repair" all the compromised sets?
Seems to me that, in the real world, any attempt to actually enforce this protection, which is eventually bound to leak out anyway, can only succeed by destroying your customer base in the process. Not that the idiots attempting this aren't foolish enough to actually try it.
Yeah, I've long felt TiVos are rather over-priced. Now I know it for sure.
But now did this happen? From the fly on the wall.
TiVo 1: What does a VCR do?
Tivo 2: Record at preset times, fast forward, rewind, visually skip through unwanted material.
Tivo Lawyer: You can patent that simply by changing VCR to DVR.
Patent Office: Wow! Another new, unobvious innovation in the television market!
(Figure it out, folks.)
I think people thought they understood what their Apple is. It just works! With Apple having such a tight rein over both the OS and the H/W, plus the legend Apple promotes, I think it's quite reasonable for an Apple user to believe if it runs on one Mac, it runs on all Macs.
Obviously not the case here, but I'm not ready to blame the users for not knowing what a 'Beta' release is. Apple is the computer for the rest of us who don't want to know what a beta is, or what it means.
It doesn't really matter what Apple is saying about Boot Camp now in the fine print. That can't be expected to outweigh what they've been saying all along about their computers otherwise. Sorry Apple, it should have worked, or you shouldn't have released it. That's your legacy.
10 Delay product to incroporate top-of-the-line features
20 New top-of-the-line features are created
30 GoTo 10
40 Never End