Does this affect European time zones and summer times in any way? I presume not, and the only effect we might see is incorrect time zone in e.g. mail headers from the US, if sent from an unpatched mail server with the wrong time. Or am I forgetting something?
Sony uses rootkit to enforce DRM which incorporates code to circumflect DRM and thus can sue itself under the DMCA. C'mon! If this gets any more convoluted or self-referential, either the universe will explode (and be replaced with something even more complicated) or Sony will disappear in a puff of logic.
This is completely expectable - every time Sony electronics produces a gadget which plays a non-DRM music format (MP3 etc), someone in Sony Music starts screaming bloody murder. I know I saw a specific reference to this in an interview some time ago but it's lost to me now.
However, Sony has been producing MP3 players (walkman brand CD portables and also car stereos) for a number of years now - it's just that they are marketing them primarily as "ATRAC Walkman" which also happens to play MP3 as a side feature. The bundled crappy software produces ATRAC discs which suck large asteroids through thin straws (it has no ID3 for starters) and has no support for MP3 whatsoever. However, feed the discman with an MP3 data disc and it will play happily. The in-car stereo I have (a Sony CDX-R3300) is actually marketed as an MP3 car audio player.
High end TVs do temporal interpolation for which you need at least one frame before and one after the one you are processing, so you can't avoid the delay. Have a look at this Philips datasheet for such a processor. Btw, it has the equivalent processing power of a 10 GHz Pentium CPU.
I don't think future technology will improve matters much. The basic problem is that in order to be able to interpolate the frame rate or do 3:2 pulldown (which is what high end TVs do), you need to get at least two adjacent frames of video into RAM, process them and then display them. Even with instantaneous processing, you can't get around being at least one frame too late without a time machine.
Why do people always bring up printing? (...) A professional designer might be limited by this, but they are not likely to use GIMP for final output.
Well, for small scale image editing stuff at work (I'm not in the graphics industry, btw) I use Gimp since my work environment includes both Windows and Linux boxes on my desk. However, when I print in colour on our colour laser (cmyk), I have to resort to Photoshop to convert the image from rgb to the printer's cmyk colour profile since it seems to be the only way to get decent colour and saturated black out of it.
But I digress. My whole point was basically against all those Linux zealots who will blindly claim that Linux is great and that Gimp is just like Photoshop except it's free and use that as "proof" of Linux being ready for the enterprise (well, publishing in this case) and that you don't need Photoshop since Gimp is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Well, it bloody well isn't.
Yea because of the OS is really lagging... fuck off turd squirter. the OS is not lagging,it the APP that is lagging.
Colour profiling should be a part of the OS so that all applications can make use of it. Actually, a part of the display system, which would make it XFree86's fault for not supporting colour calibration. Besides, how do you expect an application to have colour calibration support without the display system supporting it? Should the application just blindly trust the display system to display accurate colour? Don't think so.
Yes, Linux and The X Window System sucks at colour calibration support. Get over it.
OTOH, I suppose commercial Unices (I'd expect at least Irix) do have colour calibration support, since SGI's are (were?) widely used in the graphics industry.
Having CMYK support is all fine and dandy but it won't get you far in the printing world without support for colour profiles and colour calibration. Linux sadly lags behind others (Windows, MacOS) in this area, and having Gimp support CMYK is like fitting racing wheels onto a horse and shoving it onto the Indycar track...
Absolutely! And aside from being an innovative concept in gaming AND a completely new approach to human input to games, it is an astonishing technology demo which works fantastically well. For those who have not seen it, it's not just that the camera recognizes motion on the screen in real time in wildly varying lighting conditions and uses it as input for boxing, keeping up a football in the air with your head, popping baloons, etc - the whole input system is camera based. When in the menus, the screen has several hot-spots (Select, Cancel, etc) and you just wiggle your fingers at the hot-spot for a second and the system will take your hint and accept it as input.
In any way, kudos to Sony R&D for putting lots of cool technology to a very practical use. I'm still amazed at how flawlessly the system works in less than ideal lighting.
Basing copyright time on creation time is wildly difficult at best, and would be a complete farce at worst.
I agree. However, IMHO, it would be just as righteous as requiring a $1 fee to keep the copyright.
What might work is establish a mechanism of challenging a copyright on a particular work. For example, you might decide that The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a timeless classic which transcends it's art forms (radio drama, book, computer game, etc) and should be declared to be in the public domain. You would submit it as an entry to the committee for public domain, people would vote for the claim. A panel of judges would be assembled, the claim analyzed, and, if found reasonable, approved.
I see a number of potential issues with the idea. First of all is the obvious automation of the renewal process which will make it easy to automatically extend the copyright. However, the $1 (or whatever) fee is per work, that is, a fee to keep a single artwork copyrighted. This is all fine and dandy for bookwriters and moviemakers with an expected total of works in the count of 10 to 20 in a lifetime. But consider photographers, who shoot thousands of photos a year, or quite likely much more. Do they have to pay for each of their photos?
Stock photography might radically change in view of this idea...
Of course, you say, but the photographer will then have to choose among his best work and pick the ones for which he wants to keep the copyright! Blah. You can't resolve it like this. Suddenly you'll have poor artists who will be exploited because they didn't pay their copyright fee, and you'll have rich art whores who'll pay to have every single piece of their crap copyrighted.
It won't work. You might as well decide to have the copyright last ten times as long as it took to create the particular artwork. So if it's a photo, say ten days at most. If it's a book, 10 years or thereabouts.
I agree. I'd also add that Rez iz IMHO the most original game I've seen since Tetris.
Anyway, to contribute slightly to the topic, the credits of Rez say: Dedicated to the incredible creative soul of Kandinsky.
Vasily Kandinsky was an early 20-th century painter and musician, one of the first abstract painters, and also a synesthete - his paintings are as close to music as paintings can get, and it is very easy to imagine music while examining his artwork. He once said that color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.
Just overclock your tamper-resistant machine to the bleeding edge of running at maximum MHz you can get. Tweak the speed to the point that the body heat emitted by regular users will not overheat the CPU, but anyone approaching the machine with a 50 Watt bulb would fry the machine before gaining access to data.
However, now you get a denial of service attack, but hey, it's better than information disclosure or arbitrary code execution.:-)
Another deceptively simple thing is just trying to keep your balance while walking on two legs. Getting a robot to do that is not as easy as it looks in cheesy SF flicks.
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They just changed the name from "The Venice Project" to Joowhatever. Not much new developement to write about.
Does this affect European time zones and summer times in any way? I presume not, and the only effect we might see is incorrect time zone in e.g. mail headers from the US, if sent from an unpatched mail server with the wrong time. Or am I forgetting something?
... one must first understand recursion.
Sony uses rootkit to enforce DRM which incorporates code to circumflect DRM and thus can sue itself under the DMCA. C'mon! If this gets any more convoluted or self-referential, either the universe will explode (and be replaced with something even more complicated) or Sony will disappear in a puff of logic.
Better than Bash? I guess they'll be using Zsh then. :-)
This is completely expectable - every time Sony electronics produces a gadget which plays a non-DRM music format (MP3 etc), someone in Sony Music starts screaming bloody murder. I know I saw a specific reference to this in an interview some time ago but it's lost to me now.
However, Sony has been producing MP3 players (walkman brand CD portables and also car stereos) for a number of years now - it's just that they are marketing them primarily as "ATRAC Walkman" which also happens to play MP3 as a side feature. The bundled crappy software produces ATRAC discs which suck large asteroids through thin straws (it has no ID3 for starters) and has no support for MP3 whatsoever. However, feed the discman with an MP3 data disc and it will play happily. The in-car stereo I have (a Sony CDX-R3300) is actually marketed as an MP3 car audio player.
I think the PS2 has sold some 7 million consoles worldwide
Slightly more. 80 million as of Dec 2004.
Definitely get GT3 (someone in the thread wrote you can get it for $8) and practice while you wait for GT4. You'll need the practice ;)
High end TVs do temporal interpolation for which you need at least one frame before and one after the one you are processing, so you can't avoid the delay. Have a look at this Philips datasheet for such a processor. Btw, it has the equivalent processing power of a 10 GHz Pentium CPU.
We cannot do this with our current technology.
I don't think future technology will improve matters much. The basic problem is that in order to be able to interpolate the frame rate or do 3:2 pulldown (which is what high end TVs do), you need to get at least two adjacent frames of video into RAM, process them and then display them. Even with instantaneous processing, you can't get around being at least one frame too late without a time machine.
Why do people always bring up printing? (...) A professional designer might be limited by this, but they are not likely to use GIMP for final output.
Well, for small scale image editing stuff at work (I'm not in the graphics industry, btw) I use Gimp since my work environment includes both Windows and Linux boxes on my desk. However, when I print in colour on our colour laser (cmyk), I have to resort to Photoshop to convert the image from rgb to the printer's cmyk colour profile since it seems to be the only way to get decent colour and saturated black out of it.
But I digress. My whole point was basically against all those Linux zealots who will blindly claim that Linux is great and that Gimp is just like Photoshop except it's free and use that as "proof" of Linux being ready for the enterprise (well, publishing in this case) and that you don't need Photoshop since Gimp is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Well, it bloody well isn't.
Yea because of the OS is really lagging... fuck off turd squirter. the OS is not lagging ,it the APP that is lagging.
Colour profiling should be a part of the OS so that all applications can make use of it. Actually, a part of the display system, which would make it XFree86's fault for not supporting colour calibration. Besides, how do you expect an application to have colour calibration support without the display system supporting it? Should the application just blindly trust the display system to display accurate colour? Don't think so.
Yes, Linux and The X Window System sucks at colour calibration support. Get over it.
OTOH, I suppose commercial Unices (I'd expect at least Irix) do have colour calibration support, since SGI's are (were?) widely used in the graphics industry.
Having CMYK support is all fine and dandy but it won't get you far in the printing world without support for colour profiles and colour calibration. Linux sadly lags behind others (Windows, MacOS) in this area, and having Gimp support CMYK is like fitting racing wheels onto a horse and shoving it onto the Indycar track ...
Mod away...
Absolutely! And aside from being an innovative concept in gaming AND a completely new approach to human input to games, it is an astonishing technology demo which works fantastically well. For those who have not seen it, it's not just that the camera recognizes motion on the screen in real time in wildly varying lighting conditions and uses it as input for boxing, keeping up a football in the air with your head, popping baloons, etc - the whole input system is camera based. When in the menus, the screen has several hot-spots (Select, Cancel, etc) and you just wiggle your fingers at the hot-spot for a second and the system will take your hint and accept it as input.
In any way, kudos to Sony R&D for putting lots of cool technology to a very practical use. I'm still amazed at how flawlessly the system works in less than ideal lighting.
Basing copyright time on creation time is wildly difficult at best, and would be a complete farce at worst.
I agree. However, IMHO, it would be just as righteous as requiring a $1 fee to keep the copyright.
What might work is establish a mechanism of challenging a copyright on a particular work. For example, you might decide that The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a timeless classic which transcends it's art forms (radio drama, book, computer game, etc) and should be declared to be in the public domain. You would submit it as an entry to the committee for public domain, people would vote for the claim. A panel of judges would be assembled, the claim analyzed, and, if found reasonable, approved.
I see a number of potential issues with the idea. First of all is the obvious automation of the renewal process which will make it easy to automatically extend the copyright. However, the $1 (or whatever) fee is per work, that is, a fee to keep a single artwork copyrighted. This is all fine and dandy for bookwriters and moviemakers with an expected total of works in the count of 10 to 20 in a lifetime. But consider photographers, who shoot thousands of photos a year, or quite likely much more. Do they have to pay for each of their photos?
...
Stock photography might radically change in view of this idea
Of course, you say, but the photographer will then have to choose among his best work and pick the ones for which he wants to keep the copyright! Blah. You can't resolve it like this. Suddenly you'll have poor artists who will be exploited because they didn't pay their copyright fee, and you'll have rich art whores who'll pay to have every single piece of their crap copyrighted.
It won't work. You might as well decide to have the copyright last ten times as long as it took to create the particular artwork. So if it's a photo, say ten days at most. If it's a book, 10 years or thereabouts.
I've gotten more skills from playing video games than much of anything else.
:)
So how many objects can you track then?
I agree. I'd also add that Rez iz IMHO the most original game I've seen since Tetris.
Anyway, to contribute slightly to the topic, the credits of Rez say: Dedicated to the incredible creative soul of Kandinsky.
Vasily Kandinsky was an early 20-th century painter and musician, one of the first abstract painters, and also a synesthete - his paintings are as close to music as paintings can get, and it is very easy to imagine music while examining his artwork. He once said that color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.
And for the hax0rs without a local shell, there's a recent samba instant-remote-r00t vulnerability. Get your patches while they're hot!
Just overclock your tamper-resistant machine to the bleeding edge of running at maximum MHz you can get. Tweak the speed to the point that the body heat emitted by regular users will not overheat the CPU, but anyone approaching the machine with a 50 Watt bulb would fry the machine before gaining access to data.
:-)
However, now you get a denial of service attack, but hey, it's better than information disclosure or arbitrary code execution.
Another deceptively simple thing is just trying to keep your balance while walking on two legs. Getting a robot to do that is not as easy as it looks in cheesy SF flicks.