listening to the same cheesy pop music (and not sharing it with out friends)
I see you presume that the RIAA will be successful in stamping out file sharing. Will they sue the first A.I. that tries to share its thoughs with another system?
For reasons I can't understand, Slashdot alters the link to remove the underscore when the link is expressed as href="DB_Story.home.att.net". I know this form doesn't meet the applicable RFC, however neither AT&T, my browser, nor any ISP's along the traceroute ever complained to me when it was expressed this way.
have written a lot of enjoyable speculative fiction on this subject. I agree with them that in the same way the Sony Betamax became a guaranteed success when people became able to watch porn/erotica in the privacy of their own homes, it will be sex that successfully sells A.I. robots to the masses. And the pressures to be ahead of competitors will inevitably lead to robot minds comparable to human minds.
Even Scientific American's turn of the millennium issue three and a half years ago had a big article predicting human level artificial intelligence within 30 years or so. I hope these predictions are a bit more accurate than that for flat-screen, hang on the wall televisions that were 5 years away for the last 25.
Microsoft doesn't want to do anything to aid the compeititon. For certain MS would not allow any drivers they write to be used for free in other OS's, and can clearly be expected to add to any shrinkwrap license (if it's not already there) that even purchasing a legal copy of Windows does not entitle you to use any part of it under any other OS. Even the act of decompiling a Windows distribution might run afoul of the (truely awful) DMCA.
Also expect them to pressure any other driver writers who what their drivers certified by MS and/or included in any MS distribution to require the same. (This is obvious, not insightful.)
Of course, MS can put anything -- legal or not -- into their shrinkwrap and click-through licenses, however it will remain the de facto condition and limitation until your lawyers and lobbiests beat their lawyers and lobbiests in court and Congress.
IIRC MS has successfully scared off attempts to run compiled Foxpro applications under other operating systems, and even prevented printing of benchmarks, with their license terms.
The letter also warns the recipient that deleting infringed songs would be considered destruction of evidence "now that you are aware that a lawsuit may be filed against you.''
Isn't that cute. Not even certain that the lawsuit will be filed. Just may be filed against you.
Is it even enforcable. It sounds like the cops knocking at the door announcing, "We about burst into your house with an arrest warrant for illegral drugs. And if you flush them down the toilet we'll get you for destruction of evidence.
I thought the RIAA amnesty program wanted you to delete all your "illegal" files and destroy the CD-Rs you burned them on. Can't these people make up their mind?
SONY should be the angry party here. They could have owned the iPod market for Windows, and they let their music division shoot down their technology division.
Funny how they still sell so many CD-burners and blank media though, isn't it?
From my point of view it is the usual MS garbage of disparaging any other system where they don't have a competative alternative in place. It's completely phony, and I hope people refuse to buy into it.
This is another piece of Windows software that claims to require 2K or XP only. What are the necessary feature(s) provided by 2K and XP that aren't supported in 98/Me?
Tried to read the article, but it appears encrypted using the Lawyer-iese Obfuscation 2.0. I'm afraid if I decode it they'll prosecute me under the DMCA.
But 40+ years is long enough that all the information and resources are probably available to country that has enough money to throw at it.
That's the scary thing about atomic bombs. The only two atomic bombs ever actually used in war are basically 60 year old techology. Technology so old a modern EE might not even understand it.
Minutes after the launch, a CCTV announcer said that Shenzhou 5 and Yang had "entered orbit at 9:10." Xinhua said Yang was "reading a flight manual in the capsule of the Shenzhou-5 spacecraft and looked composed and at ease."
I think I would have been prepared a little more in advance. I mean, what if some flunky forgot to include the last chapter -- "Re-entry and Landing" in the book?
Did they use a human to pick the best pic out of the 24 that second of film? Or just automate scanning to scan 1, skip 23, rinse and repeat?
The value would be greater if they displayed 24 thumbnails on the screen and had someone click on the best one. Even some bad choices would likely not be any worse than just every 24th one.
At 2GB/hour for DVD quality, that's only 7TB. That's not as much as it sounds like. Seriously. Your desktop today can have near 1TB for less than $1000.
It's hard to keep up with the current reality of amazingly cheap storage by even recent historical standards.
Recently, I was given access to an archive of photos from my late grandfather who was in the OSS, and I am absolutely amazed at the amount of history in these photos.
I hope you will make these photos available too. These days of Internet and ever falling storage make the cost (to you) minor, while the benefit to the world, large.
With that much data at risk and Maxtor's lousy warranty length and previous poor reputation, I'd want a RAID 1 (mirroring) configuration for starters. Does push the cost up a bit.
(For those of you frothing at the keyboard to tell me that RAID 1 is the worst configuration, there's nothing else that works with 2 drives and provides full data backup.)
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What about RAH's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress?
Mr. Gerold, I didn't know you were a Slashdot contributor.
I see you presume that the RIAA will be successful in stamping out file sharing. Will they sue the first A.I. that tries to share its thoughs with another system?
Excellent Quote!
A good one this time?
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Elf Sternberg and DB Story
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have written a lot of enjoyable speculative fiction on this subject. I agree with them that in the same way the Sony Betamax became a guaranteed success when people became able to watch porn/erotica in the privacy of their own homes, it will be sex that successfully sells A.I. robots to the masses. And the pressures to be ahead of competitors will inevitably lead to robot minds comparable to human minds.
Even Scientific American's turn of the millennium issue three and a half years ago had a big article predicting human level artificial intelligence within 30 years or so. I hope these predictions are a bit more accurate than that for flat-screen, hang on the wall televisions that were 5 years away for the last 25.
Also expect them to pressure any other driver writers who what their drivers certified by MS and/or included in any MS distribution to require the same. (This is obvious, not insightful.)
Of course, MS can put anything -- legal or not -- into their shrinkwrap and click-through licenses, however it will remain the de facto condition and limitation until your lawyers and lobbiests beat their lawyers and lobbiests in court and Congress.
IIRC MS has successfully scared off attempts to run compiled Foxpro applications under other operating systems, and even prevented printing of benchmarks, with their license terms.
TANJ! (Look it up. Hint: Larry Niven.)
If this is done, I'd hope it would be for Win64 drivers. Why spend good effort on what (we hope) will soon be an obsolete standard?
Isn't that cute. Not even certain that the lawsuit will be filed. Just may be filed against you.
Is it even enforcable. It sounds like the cops knocking at the door announcing, "We about burst into your house with an arrest warrant for illegral drugs. And if you flush them down the toilet we'll get you for destruction of evidence.
I thought the RIAA amnesty program wanted you to delete all your "illegal" files and destroy the CD-Rs you burned them on. Can't these people make up their mind?
I don't think code is exactly the term I'd use for incorporating Alpha design and technology into another product.
A lovely poem. Thanks for sharing it.
Funny how they still sell so many CD-burners and blank media though, isn't it?
From my point of view it is the usual MS garbage of disparaging any other system where they don't have a competative alternative in place. It's completely phony, and I hope people refuse to buy into it.
This is another piece of Windows software that claims to require 2K or XP only. What are the necessary feature(s) provided by 2K and XP that aren't supported in 98/Me?
Tried to read the article, but it appears encrypted using the Lawyer-iese Obfuscation 2.0. I'm afraid if I decode it they'll prosecute me under the DMCA.
That's the scary thing about atomic bombs. The only two atomic bombs ever actually used in war are basically 60 year old techology. Technology so old a modern EE might not even understand it.
I think I would have been prepared a little more in advance. I mean, what if some flunky forgot to include the last chapter -- "Re-entry and Landing" in the book?
Some days you get the Lion.
Some days the Lion gets you.
But always dress for the hunt (in your RIAA-proof underwear, no doubt).
I'm sure this will be popular. It will easily displace every other P2P system in existance.
OTOH, it could make grading easy in the future. To wit:
Got caught trading illegal files -- F
Didn't get caught trading illegal files -- A
The value would be greater if they displayed 24 thumbnails on the screen and had someone click on the best one. Even some bad choices would likely not be any worse than just every 24th one.
At 2GB/hour for DVD quality, that's only 7TB. That's not as much as it sounds like. Seriously. Your desktop today can have near 1TB for less than $1000.
It's hard to keep up with the current reality of amazingly cheap storage by even recent historical standards.
I hope you will make these photos available too. These days of Internet and ever falling storage make the cost (to you) minor, while the benefit to the world, large.
It's never been this great before.
You don't come out with the same space in your tower, or head-space on your power supply, when running 4 drives.
(For those of you frothing at the keyboard to tell me that RAID 1 is the worst configuration, there's nothing else that works with 2 drives and provides full data backup.)