DRM is an attempt to hand out usable copies of a binary file to paying customers, while trying to prevent those customers make further usable copies. This is the equivalent of trying to make water not wet.
So let me take your position and follow it to its logical conclusion; All DRM is snakeoil.
Yeah, but you *could* still work around that. From memory there is a network device driver for a null-modem cable. But these days every motherboard comes with an ethernet port so supporting null-modem doesn't make a lot of sense.
You probably want to start with PvPGN. AFAIK that's the logical successor to bnetd after it was shut down, and it is still being actively maintained. Warcraft III has some code that checks the authenticity of the server which required a client side patch to get around it. It wouldn't surprise me if they do something similar with the latest games to prevent MitM network monitoring. From the snippets in the interview about the latest Battle.Net it sounds like you might need to start from scratch with the network / protocol emulation.
In 1990 the ratio between debt and GDP was *only* as bad as the peak before the 1890's depression. Since then debt has been growing even faster. At least if the bubble burst in 1990 we would be able to rely on past history to predict what would happen. Now? we have no historical event that comes close to the scale of what is happening.
What's the problem? The *average* American spends $1.30 for every $1.00 they earn. The average house has a loan on it for 60% of its market value, while the market value is falling fast. And everyone is still hoping and praying for a quick fix wonder cure that will wipe all the trouble away and allow the fairy tale to continue.
And now everyone is turning to their governments to bail out this mess. This will only result in bankrupt governments as well.
There's only one way to fix this. Widespread bankruptcy.
All the people who have gambled with or spent their future earnings and thrown them away need to be cleaned out of the economy. It's going to hurt and there's nothing we can do about it. We might have been able to fix this 15 years ago during the last recession, but it's too late now.
I thought with the panic last week, the bubble would finally burst and we can start the healing and re-building process. But it seems there is still far too much optimism.
Oh, and that job you have? Once we stop borrowing more money, 30% of the economy (and therefore 30% of the jobs) disappear overnight. I hope for your sake you don't become redundant.
That's certainly a good description of what happened at the end of this asset / debt bubble. I suppose the point I was trying to make is that a crash or recession was inevitable. The economy was fueled by people continuing to borrow more and more money, at a faster rate than the growth of the economy. Eventually it had to stop and should have stopped some time ago. There was a point where banks stopped buying *cough* "good" debt, and started buying "bad" debt. To keep the debt induced euphoria going, they tried harder and harder to find more suckers to loan money to, turning a blind eye to the long term consequences.
If the banks had been more sensible, loaning only what people can really afford. We would still have had a recession and a crash eventually. Though I think I should revise my earlier statement. I think the 50 year debt bubble would have popped 5-15 years ago and I think it almost did.
Thanks to the banks, the only thing we have to look forward to is a long deflationary depression. This will continue until everyone has either paid back all their debts, gone bankrupt, or passed away (since debt can't be inherited).
I certainly agree that sub-primes were a very bad idea, and they helped trigger this collapse. But they were only the tip of the iceberg. We've had more than 50 years where debt has grown faster than GDP. That trend was unsustainable and had to stop eventually. Without sub-prime loans, we may have lasted a bit longer, with a softer fall at the end. Take this quote from 18/12/2006 "These blind faithful will pay the price in not too distant a future", well before the sub-prime crisis came to light.
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As far as I remember, this method builds a map of an attractive face. This includes the outline of some facial features like the eyebrows, eyes and lips. Then the original face is stretched and squashed until it matches the attractive map.
If you are looking at the front page, which only shows stories. There's no point displaying the story tag. Similarly if you are filtering submissions on the firehose by any other specific tag.
Tell me about it. When my son was maybe 2 and a half, I was typing on the computer and he wanted a turn. So he grabbed the mouse I wasn't using and logged me off.
Now here's the problem. While the economy may have been growing at 4% a year.
Debt has been growing faster. Most of the growth in the economy in the last couple decades has been fueled by somebody somewhere borrowing money to fund it. The reason we have this current financial crisis is because we've run out of people to loan money to. Loaning $700 billion to fund more spending is the worst thing the government can do right now.
If you value assets based only on the future earnings of that asset, then you should be fine to borrow some percentage of that value. With housing you should price a house based on the rental income you could reasonably expect to receive.
Every dollar above that reasonable value is speculation that when you sell it again the increase in price will cover the interest you have paid (or the opportunities lost from other investments you could have bought instead) plus some amount of profit. But in order to achieve that increased price you are betting that someone else will speculate that the price will rise even higher.
In the long term, this speculation on asset prices is no better than a Pyramid or Ponzi scam. A few early investors make a profit at the expense of the people left holding the short straw at the end. When they realise there are no more gullible investors left.
Paulson's Plan is like bailing the Titanic with a thimble
While $700 billion sounds like big bikkies, it's chicken feed compared to the scale of outstanding private debt in the USA of $41 trillion.
While the rescue might keep what's left of Wall Street solvent, and could provide a boost to Main Street's economy, it will be dwarfed as the Great De-leveraging begins, as American families and corporations, by choice or by bankruptcy, start reducing their debts rather than piling them forever higher.
... even if the rescue package totalled $2 trillion, and even if it were financed entirely by printing money,... the best it could do would be to boost aggregate demand by 5%. But the collapse in private borrowing could cut aggregate demand by 30%.
So this rescue won't bail out the Ship of Fools, but it will make the American Ship of State even more insolvent than it already is.
America is in trouble.
There are two sides to this catastrophe, and whatever is done about it, one side or the other is bankrupt.
The other pictures from the event clearly show an overcast sky. Even if they did time it properly for the next fly-by, I doubt the google earth image will show anything.
The financial problems of 1990 and 2000 were just small corrections. In the long term none of them had any impact on the level of debt in the economy.
There is a very big reason why the current financial crisis is worse than anything anyone remembers. The last 50 years of living beyond our means is finally catching up to us. There simply isn't any more available credit, we've spent it all.
Any attempt at a financial rescue that does nothing to reduce debt, is no rescue at all. The only long term way out of this mess is to reduce debt. First we have to cut our spending till it's less than our income so we have something left to pay down our debt. But even this has a huge cost. Last year 4.5 trillion dollars of the US's 14 trillion dollar GDP was funded by increasing private debt. Stop that growth of debt and overnight 30% of the economy disappears.
The band has stopped playing, the music has stopped, but there's nowhere to sit down because we sold all the chairs when we thought we didn't need them.
Combining these 3D shutter based glasses with head tracking to change the point of view of the scene should help significantly. If done right you could probably hang from the ceiling and still have the scene look normal.
The fact that a post describing how another post that explains that it was impossible to post something insightful and yet was moderated insightful was itself moderated interesting reminds me how much I love to post a follow up comment with a similarly convoluted sentence structure and get moderated funny.
Anyone who reads The Daily WTF, or has encountered something similar first hand, will tell you that there are a lot of people working in IT who are not competent. The worst thing is that they probably don't even realize it.
Where I work we have a semi-formal Java test we will give to a small room of applying graduate students on some basic CS concepts. If we don't have a formal test, or we think it might be too insulting, we will certainly have a technical expert sit in on the interview with a few questions to try to gauge how well you know your craft.
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DRM is an attempt to hand out usable copies of a binary file to paying customers, while trying to prevent those customers make further usable copies. This is the equivalent of trying to make water not wet.
So let me take your position and follow it to its logical conclusion; All DRM is snakeoil.
They're probably in disbelief that you managed to guess the code to the atmospheric shield.
I have the same combination on my luggage!
Yeah, but you *could* still work around that. From memory there is a network device driver for a null-modem cable. But these days every motherboard comes with an ethernet port so supporting null-modem doesn't make a lot of sense.
You probably want to start with PvPGN. AFAIK that's the logical successor to bnetd after it was shut down, and it is still being actively maintained. Warcraft III has some code that checks the authenticity of the server which required a client side patch to get around it. It wouldn't surprise me if they do something similar with the latest games to prevent MitM network monitoring. From the snippets in the interview about the latest Battle.Net it sounds like you might need to start from scratch with the network / protocol emulation.
Also Firefox 3.1 has a slightly faster js engine than chrome does for many tasks. So even that advantage will be moot soon.
In 1990 the ratio between debt and GDP was *only* as bad as the peak before the 1890's depression. Since then debt has been growing even faster. At least if the bubble burst in 1990 we would be able to rely on past history to predict what would happen. Now? we have no historical event that comes close to the scale of what is happening.
What's the problem? The *average* American spends $1.30 for every $1.00 they earn. The average house has a loan on it for 60% of its market value, while the market value is falling fast. And everyone is still hoping and praying for a quick fix wonder cure that will wipe all the trouble away and allow the fairy tale to continue.
And now everyone is turning to their governments to bail out this mess. This will only result in bankrupt governments as well.
There's only one way to fix this. Widespread bankruptcy.
All the people who have gambled with or spent their future earnings and thrown them away need to be cleaned out of the economy. It's going to hurt and there's nothing we can do about it. We might have been able to fix this 15 years ago during the last recession, but it's too late now.
I thought with the panic last week, the bubble would finally burst and we can start the healing and re-building process. But it seems there is still far too much optimism.
Oh, and that job you have? Once we stop borrowing more money, 30% of the economy (and therefore 30% of the jobs) disappear overnight. I hope for your sake you don't become redundant.
That's certainly a good description of what happened at the end of this asset / debt bubble. I suppose the point I was trying to make is that a crash or recession was inevitable. The economy was fueled by people continuing to borrow more and more money, at a faster rate than the growth of the economy. Eventually it had to stop and should have stopped some time ago. There was a point where banks stopped buying *cough* "good" debt, and started buying "bad" debt. To keep the debt induced euphoria going, they tried harder and harder to find more suckers to loan money to, turning a blind eye to the long term consequences.
If the banks had been more sensible, loaning only what people can really afford. We would still have had a recession and a crash eventually. Though I think I should revise my earlier statement. I think the 50 year debt bubble would have popped 5-15 years ago and I think it almost did.
Thanks to the banks, the only thing we have to look forward to is a long deflationary depression. This will continue until everyone has either paid back all their debts, gone bankrupt, or passed away (since debt can't be inherited).
I certainly agree that sub-primes were a very bad idea, and they helped trigger this collapse. But they were only the tip of the iceberg. We've had more than 50 years where debt has grown faster than GDP. That trend was unsustainable and had to stop eventually. Without sub-prime loans, we may have lasted a bit longer, with a softer fall at the end. Take this quote from 18/12/2006 "These blind faithful will pay the price in not too distant a future", well before the sub-prime crisis came to light.
Are there no red dwarf fans around here anymore?
I was with you up to "simply".
Linux 2.6.27 is out there baby and loving every minute of it.
As far as I remember, this method builds a map of an attractive face. This includes the outline of some facial features like the eyebrows, eyes and lips. Then the original face is stretched and squashed until it matches the attractive map.
I know, but if the page you are looking at has a tag filter (eg story on the front page), what's the point of showing that tag?
If you are looking at the front page, which only shows stories. There's no point displaying the story tag. Similarly if you are filtering submissions on the firehose by any other specific tag.
Tell me about it. When my son was maybe 2 and a half, I was typing on the computer and he wanted a turn. So he grabbed the mouse I wasn't using and logged me off.
Now here's the problem. While the economy may have been growing at 4% a year. Debt has been growing faster. Most of the growth in the economy in the last couple decades has been fueled by somebody somewhere borrowing money to fund it. The reason we have this current financial crisis is because we've run out of people to loan money to. Loaning $700 billion to fund more spending is the worst thing the government can do right now.
If you value assets based only on the future earnings of that asset, then you should be fine to borrow some percentage of that value. With housing you should price a house based on the rental income you could reasonably expect to receive.
Every dollar above that reasonable value is speculation that when you sell it again the increase in price will cover the interest you have paid (or the opportunities lost from other investments you could have bought instead) plus some amount of profit. But in order to achieve that increased price you are betting that someone else will speculate that the price will rise even higher.
In the long term, this speculation on asset prices is no better than a Pyramid or Ponzi scam. A few early investors make a profit at the expense of the people left holding the short straw at the end. When they realise there are no more gullible investors left.
Paulson's Plan is like bailing the Titanic with a thimble
While $700 billion sounds like big bikkies, it's chicken feed compared to the scale of outstanding private debt in the USA of $41 trillion.
While the rescue might keep what's left of Wall Street solvent, and could provide a boost to Main Street's economy, it will be dwarfed as the Great De-leveraging begins, as American families and corporations, by choice or by bankruptcy, start reducing their debts rather than piling them forever higher.
So this rescue won't bail out the Ship of Fools, but it will make the American Ship of State even more insolvent than it already is.
America is in trouble.
There are two sides to this catastrophe, and whatever is done about it, one side or the other is bankrupt.
The other pictures from the event clearly show an overcast sky. Even if they did time it properly for the next fly-by, I doubt the google earth image will show anything.
"Where does that leave its citizens?" $9,788 billion in the hole
Fixed.
There is a very big reason why the current financial crisis is worse than anything anyone remembers. The last 50 years of living beyond our means is finally catching up to us. There simply isn't any more available credit, we've spent it all.
Any attempt at a financial rescue that does nothing to reduce debt, is no rescue at all. The only long term way out of this mess is to reduce debt. First we have to cut our spending till it's less than our income so we have something left to pay down our debt. But even this has a huge cost. Last year 4.5 trillion dollars of the US's 14 trillion dollar GDP was funded by increasing private debt. Stop that growth of debt and overnight 30% of the economy disappears.
The band has stopped playing, the music has stopped, but there's nowhere to sit down because we sold all the chairs when we thought we didn't need them.
Combining these 3D shutter based glasses with head tracking to change the point of view of the scene should help significantly. If done right you could probably hang from the ceiling and still have the scene look normal.
The fact that a post describing how another post that explains that it was impossible to post something insightful and yet was moderated insightful was itself moderated interesting reminds me how much I love to post a follow up comment with a similarly convoluted sentence structure and get moderated funny.
Where I work we have a semi-formal Java test we will give to a small room of applying graduate students on some basic CS concepts. If we don't have a formal test, or we think it might be too insulting, we will certainly have a technical expert sit in on the interview with a few questions to try to gauge how well you know your craft.