And I agree with his interpretation
from his article:
" Ebook column that gets it all wrong
Gizmodo has a new column called "Feature Creep," and they kicked it off with an editorial about the future of ebooks that is striking for its complete disregard for the actual marketplace experiences with ebooks. It's full of hoary chestnuts about ebooks that have been emptily mouthed for 10 years ("Call it digital paper or electronic ink, it's the future of eBooks.") and aside from the occassional iPod comparison, there's hardly a paragraph in there that couldn't have been written in 1997 -- nor one that takes note of any of the events since then (well, to be fair, there's also a lot of puffery stuck in there to promote an ebook company called Vertical that probably didn't exist in 1997, but that's beside the point).
Take DRM. The author asserts on the one hand that DRM can work, and that it won't be so invasive that it turns readers (whom the author insists on calling "consumers," an odious buzzword that invokes Gibson's description in Idoru, "...a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed") off.
This despite the actual marketplace fact that all DRM becomes invasive (ask any copyright policy maker in a country that allows parallel importing how he feels about the "lightweight" region-coding DRM on DVDs that reverses the laws he was elected to enact).
This despite the actual marketplace fact that DRM is generally broken within a few days of engagement with the public, often by teenagers, grad students, or people with ready acccess to sophisticated DRM-cracking tools like Google and the sinister Shift key (for more on DRM, see my DRM talk)"
http://www.boingboing.net/2004/07/29/ebook_column_ that_ge.html
Does anyone have any more info on how this affects the ISA for the chips in question?
I have been in to this TCIA and how it also can be a trojan horse for DRM and I was wondering if anyone could offer some more insight (links maybe) into how this actually affects the hardware.
Will this ultimately fork the ISA's for x86 or is that just fear talk chittering in the background?
any response would be appreciated.
it all depends on what kind of paper you use. Also you might consider fooling with a can of starch, some isopropyl alcohol, an 'authentic' bill and one of those four dollar pens.
the only people they catch are the people who aren't paying attention to the composition of the paper, or maybe the three or four farmers in the middle of khakistan who haven't heard about the 'magic' counterfiet detection pen.
I have a cheese slicer that is one the old wire kind and its a bitch to keep clean. Those old chees slicers are a health risk to a certain extent because there is always trace slivers of cheese embedded in the wood and along the pivot joint for the slice wire. Of course the component isnt dishwasher safe and the parts where the cheese sticks are too small for even one of those green scrubbies.
so I say BRAVO LASER CHEESE SLICER INVENTOR PERSON!
I officially petition that the membership rolls of/. become a phyle unto themselves.
Then, later after some nanophages reduce Darl C. McBride into a pile of steaming goo. I propose that we work dilligiently at getting the hell off this planet!
Yeah but the fact that 'Johnny' is going nuts over the trailing decimals of a gigahertz number is what keeps the AMD's that 'I' use under 50 bucks. So I am not so sure that people in topeka buying a ton of highspeed deesktops is a bad thing.
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And I agree with his interpretation from his article: " Ebook column that gets it all wrong Gizmodo has a new column called "Feature Creep," and they kicked it off with an editorial about the future of ebooks that is striking for its complete disregard for the actual marketplace experiences with ebooks. It's full of hoary chestnuts about ebooks that have been emptily mouthed for 10 years ("Call it digital paper or electronic ink, it's the future of eBooks.") and aside from the occassional iPod comparison, there's hardly a paragraph in there that couldn't have been written in 1997 -- nor one that takes note of any of the events since then (well, to be fair, there's also a lot of puffery stuck in there to promote an ebook company called Vertical that probably didn't exist in 1997, but that's beside the point). Take DRM. The author asserts on the one hand that DRM can work, and that it won't be so invasive that it turns readers (whom the author insists on calling "consumers," an odious buzzword that invokes Gibson's description in Idoru, "...a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed") off. This despite the actual marketplace fact that all DRM becomes invasive (ask any copyright policy maker in a country that allows parallel importing how he feels about the "lightweight" region-coding DRM on DVDs that reverses the laws he was elected to enact). This despite the actual marketplace fact that DRM is generally broken within a few days of engagement with the public, often by teenagers, grad students, or people with ready acccess to sophisticated DRM-cracking tools like Google and the sinister Shift key (for more on DRM, see my DRM talk)" http://www.boingboing.net/2004/07/29/ebook_column_ that_ge.html
Does anyone have any more info on how this affects the ISA for the chips in question? I have been in to this TCIA and how it also can be a trojan horse for DRM and I was wondering if anyone could offer some more insight (links maybe) into how this actually affects the hardware. Will this ultimately fork the ISA's for x86 or is that just fear talk chittering in the background? any response would be appreciated.
it all depends on what kind of paper you use. Also you might consider fooling with a can of starch, some isopropyl alcohol, an 'authentic' bill and one of those four dollar pens. the only people they catch are the people who aren't paying attention to the composition of the paper, or maybe the three or four farmers in the middle of khakistan who haven't heard about the 'magic' counterfiet detection pen.
I have a cheese slicer that is one the old wire kind and its a bitch to keep clean. Those old chees slicers are a health risk to a certain extent because there is always trace slivers of cheese embedded in the wood and along the pivot joint for the slice wire. Of course the component isnt dishwasher safe and the parts where the cheese sticks are too small for even one of those green scrubbies. so I say BRAVO LASER CHEESE SLICER INVENTOR PERSON!
http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard.html
That really sucks, but I doubt there is anything you can do. Except learn. Next time you need to be the bigger bastard than they are.
they are under a DDos as we speak
I thought windows XP was the service pack!
>Will the Diamond Age begin in our lifetimes?
/. become a phyle unto themselves.
I officially petition that the membership rolls of
Then, later after some nanophages reduce Darl C. McBride into a pile of steaming goo. I propose that we work dilligiently at getting the hell off this planet!
yeah like R.H. 9 ;-)
Yeah but the fact that 'Johnny' is going nuts over the trailing decimals of a gigahertz number is what keeps the AMD's that 'I' use under 50 bucks. So I am not so sure that people in topeka buying a ton of highspeed deesktops is a bad thing.
not that this will help that much but I think we should refer to the whole lot of them as "fuddites" from now on.