I'd not call this Flamebait. It is a long-time valid complaint that I too wish Slashdot would address before any topic is posted. Today even my valid NYTimes account wasn't working and I had to re-login, which I don't do often enough to just remember the details. Real pain in the posterior.
Since Lafayette is already in the business of tweaking the big telephone company, why not go all the way and adopt Linux too. Then they could tweak the big software company as well.
1: Offend big telephone company who wants all the opportunities and none of the regululations, and makes promises only to break them as soon as possible afterwards.
2: Lawyers arrive.
3: Offend big software company who wants all the money and no competition.
4: More lawyers arrive.
5: Collect occupancy and sales taxes from all those hotel rooms and meals purchased.
6: Profit!
...reconfigured the struts and fittings where foam was prone to peeling off, and installed heaters to prevent ice from forming. The new tank has cameras...
Keep this up and one day the shuttle will be too heavy to liftoff. In an STS, every pound counts.
I've long wondered, as many posters have already pointed out today, why these DRM companies get money from the industry despite all the reasons already pointed out why it will hardly prevent any copies at all. The difference is that this post answers the question.
And the answer is my corollary to Schneier's Law.
Bruce Schneier says (paraphrased): Anybody can create a cipher they cannot break.
My corollary is that: Anybody can create a DRM system that a record company executive cannot bypass.
This, of course, is more a comment about the technical savvy of the recording industry, than any comment on the hundred monkees [sic] of your choice at keyboards generating such a system. Is there a executive alive who'll admit that he can't manage to accomplish what legions of teenagers stupid enough to pay such inflated prices for his product can manage? I think not!
...and waiting, and waiting, and waiting for, since it seems so obvious...
is a driver for a PC-CD driver that gives your CD drive full CDDA emulation, but with a fancy on-screen control panel that matches the best high-end CD players, and a copy-digital-to-disc checkbox. If you PC drive acts like your CDDA player, can any copy protection possible succeed?
And while I'm at it, the summary didn't mention what an automotive CD player, which most closely resembles your PC CD drive, "sees".
And one other consideration. If you can only make a limited number of rips, what happens when the CD is loaned, played on another computer, or sold secondhand? Could you end up with a CD exhausted of all it's rips? How would you know in the store -- or on eBay?
Great work guys! Just one thing. Can you add a second fin and reshape the cell a bit? Give it a bit of a retro look? The CEO has a '59 'deVille he's especially proud of and he's been bugging us to death ever since someone in IT showed him how to actually use e-mail to include it in our ad campaigns so that he can write it off. I think we can kill 2 birds with 1 stone here, if you get my drift. Besides, your stuff will look really fast this way. And if you can make them pink, that would be a nice extra touch.
Thanks! And btw, can you finish it by the end of this week? We got advertising spots to buy, and ourselves to justify. Review season is just around the corner. Doesn't matter if it won't actually come out until 2009.
Excuse me but IIRC Tera is more a multi-threaded processor, not a multi-core. It was intended to run 128 threads simultaneously, and solve the memory latency problem by running each thread in succession. The idea was that if a thread was stalled by a need to access main memory, by the time it got back around to that thread again the data would have arrived. Overall throughput was supposed to put it into the supercompuer class.
You're right that the processor didn't succeed, probably because in practice it didn't preform as well as the theory sounded. What I never understood was that given all the problems in the first Tera machine, why the UCSD-SCC then went back to them and spent to much additional money on a second one?
Earth's rotational period will be locked into this orbital period
Just what causes this rotational lock? I mean I realize the Moon is locked to its rotation around the Earth, yet the Earth is not locked the Sun, which it clearly orbits and has done so for quite a while.
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Isn't it always: Chose any two.
I'd not call this Flamebait. It is a long-time valid complaint that I too wish Slashdot would address before any topic is posted. Today even my valid NYTimes account wasn't working and I had to re-login, which I don't do often enough to just remember the details. Real pain in the posterior.
California has a pretty good Anti-SLAPP law, which I would hope will get Apple in a lot of trouble over this.
How does this make sense? How does faster switching time == greater resolution? This really leads me to wonder about the veracity of these articles.
1: Offend big telephone company who wants all the opportunities and none of the regululations, and makes promises only to break them as soon as possible afterwards.
2: Lawyers arrive.
3: Offend big software company who wants all the money and no competition.
4: More lawyers arrive.
5: Collect occupancy and sales taxes from all those hotel rooms and meals purchased.
6: Profit!
The really scary part of all this is that the DMCA really has >= 512 sections with multiple paragraphs contained within each.
Thank you Slashdot -- Not!
You've quoted/created/invented/whatever the Fifth Law of robotics.
The Fourth Law can be found here.
The Sixth Law probably contains directions for what a robot does with this switch when Slashdotted.
And then there is a Seventh Law on what a robot does when pursued by Will Smith in the worst acted, most unlikable role of his recent career.
Keep this up and one day the shuttle will be too heavy to liftoff. In an STS, every pound counts.
How does a moderator verify that this isn't a fake distro? Or do you go back to the site and verify all the checksums after the d/l?
Mod this one: Shill -1.
How about the ability to withstand lawsuits? Isn't that more important than flash crowds?
Video game consoles perhaps? You have to mod the hardware because no one has yet determined how to key the software properly yet.
Of course this is only attainable because Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo et. al. have a lot of control over the actual player hardware.
And the answer is my corollary to Schneier's Law.
Bruce Schneier says (paraphrased): Anybody can create a cipher they cannot break.
My corollary is that: Anybody can create a DRM system that a record company executive cannot bypass.
This, of course, is more a comment about the technical savvy of the recording industry, than any comment on the hundred monkees [sic] of your choice at keyboards generating such a system. Is there a executive alive who'll admit that he can't manage to accomplish what legions of teenagers stupid enough to pay such inflated prices for his product can manage? I think not!
is a driver for a PC-CD driver that gives your CD drive full CDDA emulation, but with a fancy on-screen control panel that matches the best high-end CD players, and a copy-digital-to-disc checkbox. If you PC drive acts like your CDDA player, can any copy protection possible succeed?
And while I'm at it, the summary didn't mention what an automotive CD player, which most closely resembles your PC CD drive, "sees".
And one other consideration. If you can only make a limited number of rips, what happens when the CD is loaned, played on another computer, or sold secondhand? Could you end up with a CD exhausted of all it's rips? How would you know in the store -- or on eBay?
In short, DRM sux in all its forms!
To: Engineering
Subject: The Fin
Great work guys! Just one thing. Can you add a second fin and reshape the cell a bit? Give it a bit of a retro look? The CEO has a '59 'deVille he's especially proud of and he's been bugging us to death ever since someone in IT showed him how to actually use e-mail to include it in our ad campaigns so that he can write it off. I think we can kill 2 birds with 1 stone here, if you get my drift. Besides, your stuff will look really fast this way. And if you can make them pink, that would be a nice extra touch.
Thanks! And btw, can you finish it by the end of this week? We got advertising spots to buy, and ourselves to justify. Review season is just around the corner. Doesn't matter if it won't actually come out until 2009.
---Marketing Droid #451
Glad to know we're conserving these rare puppies.
I think at that point it would be the mainboard.
Excuse me but IIRC Tera is more a multi-threaded processor, not a multi-core. It was intended to run 128 threads simultaneously, and solve the memory latency problem by running each thread in succession. The idea was that if a thread was stalled by a need to access main memory, by the time it got back around to that thread again the data would have arrived. Overall throughput was supposed to put it into the supercompuer class.
You're right that the processor didn't succeed, probably because in practice it didn't preform as well as the theory sounded. What I never understood was that given all the problems in the first Tera machine, why the UCSD-SCC then went back to them and spent to much additional money on a second one?
Shouldn't that be, the Moore, the better?
So some halves are more equal than other halves.
More than anyone or anything else, Microsoft will become the major force pushing users to Linux.
Step 1: Don't tell SCO.
7) Or download faster?
8) Will it shield me from the **AA?
9) Do I get Profit!?
Just what causes this rotational lock? I mean I realize the Moon is locked to its rotation around the Earth, yet the Earth is not locked the Sun, which it clearly orbits and has done so for quite a while.