the sapphire crystal you refer to is used for watches, but is quite brittle and much more expensive than the material referred to in TFA. i recently broke my watch face by walking into a door handle - sapphire, flat crystal not the even more expensive curved stuff - and it was about 150 quid to replace. (90% of which was material cost.)
They just don't realise that a mere recording from line-out to line-in in any half-decent sound card will sound as good as the original to 99.% of the users. So they should try and prevent that as well.
RF-out analogue from DVDs plays this trick, to stop you dumping straight to VHS or whatever. the RF analogue --> CRT is a straight picture signal, but its manifestation at 25fps to VHS syntax is a bit different. each frame is stored as such for VHS, a specific section of analogue pic signal, but is prefaced individually for each frame by a 'datum' black/white signal. the pic itself is 'normalised' against this b/w datum. copy-protected DVDs mess with this datum on output - if you dump to VHS you effectively get slow phasing of pictures making them unwatchable - whilst the core RF signal to your CRT remains untouched.
i don't know if there's an equivalent exploit for digital sound --> analogue --> burn to CD. possible workaround would be to put a microphone next to a speaker - let's see 'em mess with THAT!
... it could come back to haunt us if it happens to be cyclical with a very long period, and NASA didn't know about it, and it came back with something that looks like a collision course in the future.
then the lawsuits start, particularly if it lands in the USA. frankly i'm surprised that no other group of new-agers beat the russkies to it. and the lawyers too - would give a whole different dimension to "ambulance-chasing" though.
seriously - what are the potential implications for those not subject to the US supreme court? will this ruling stifle development in the US such that us brits have fewer apps to choose from? will the EU follow suit? what if i develop grokster-like products and market them to the US - will they then call in the airstrikes? etc etc.
am i missing something, or is the jump in this article from IBM to war-t'-worlds a complete non-sequitur? WTF has IBM got to do with this movie or indeed any other?
seriously - on UK news channels, BBC etc, they always quote 'earthquake of strength X on the Richter scale'. personally i find this extremely annoying since it's a completely superfluous figure-of-speech - unless there's some other scale which people use to measure earthquakes.
.. because i live in cambridge. the sainsbury's across town (a competitor, for all you non-UK types) does exactly the same trick to monitor the consumer but doesn't even try to conceal their efforts behind a chip. if you try to buy the same gillette blades there you have to physically explain to an actual person that you want the blades, that you're not going to nick them, that you might want specifically the gillette ones as opposed to some in-house crap, etc etc.
so let's not get too excited about an invasion of privacy simply because it involves electronics.
(yes i do realise that this is/., and no i don't work for tesco).
well, maybe not. if not, they deserve all they get for not being aware of the low quality of their service. in any case, this stupidity on their part only equates to that of the punter who fails themselves to spot the low service quality, by reading the small print.
point being - never expect any service (or indeed anything else - except perhaps GPL, where profit=intellectual kudos) to behave in a manner other than to glean most profit for itself. whether or not the service actually manages to do so is their problem and beside the point.
welcome to capitalism. the point of buymusic is not to enable people to buy music, etc, but to make money for the guy (/gal) who owns it . the small print seems to cover the owner's ass, so the whole setup is probably legal (enough..); so the only reason for the owner to bother doing the thing properly would be to make more than the $100K or so he probably got in the first week before word got out that the service sucks. sounds like a reasonable business plan to me.
why do i engage in p2p? not necessarily cos i'm interested in the specific mp3 etc, instead because i can . when a law is brought into disrepute, such as copyright statutes here, i believe that the only sensible course of action is to fight to change the status quo - to change the law - rather than to attempt blindly to enforce the disreputable and unenforceable. and i'm not even a marxist.
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will they be providing the database hardware from their completely unused pay-for-use sun grid facility?
thanks /. you just gave me the impetus to cancel my subscription.
anyhow, the UK itself spends more than half the year on BST, ie not GMT.
I ANAL
default release is British English! Hooray!
the sapphire crystal you refer to is used for watches, but is quite brittle and much more expensive than the material referred to in TFA. i recently broke my watch face by walking into a door handle - sapphire, flat crystal not the even more expensive curved stuff - and it was about 150 quid to replace. (90% of which was material cost.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_is_Not_King
RF-out analogue from DVDs plays this trick, to stop you dumping straight to VHS or whatever. the RF analogue --> CRT is a straight picture signal, but its manifestation at 25fps to VHS syntax is a bit different. each frame is stored as such for VHS, a specific section of analogue pic signal, but is prefaced individually for each frame by a 'datum' black/white signal. the pic itself is 'normalised' against this b/w datum. copy-protected DVDs mess with this datum on output - if you dump to VHS you effectively get slow phasing of pictures making them unwatchable - whilst the core RF signal to your CRT remains untouched.
i don't know if there's an equivalent exploit for digital sound --> analogue --> burn to CD. possible workaround would be to put a microphone next to a speaker - let's see 'em mess with THAT!
surely 'smart mouse unveils itself'
then the lawsuits start, particularly if it lands in the USA. frankly i'm surprised that no other group of new-agers beat the russkies to it. and the lawyers too - would give a whole different dimension to "ambulance-chasing" though.
Gandalf vs Yoda - who would win ?
seriously - what are the potential implications for those not subject to the US supreme court? will this ruling stifle development in the US such that us brits have fewer apps to choose from? will the EU follow suit? what if i develop grokster-like products and market them to the US - will they then call in the airstrikes? etc etc.
I'm quite sure that MSIE will ensure Charlie don't surf!.
am i missing something, or is the jump in this article from IBM to war-t'-worlds a complete non-sequitur? WTF has IBM got to do with this movie or indeed any other?
seriously - on UK news channels, BBC etc, they always quote 'earthquake of strength X on the Richter scale'. personally i find this extremely annoying since it's a completely superfluous figure-of-speech - unless there's some other scale which people use to measure earthquakes.
anyone know different?
will they be charging $1 for a song iff it's an illegal copy?
inspection of the 'scientists' link in TFA reveals that the plate is accelerated at 1010g, taking the speed (sic) from zero to the reported 34 km/s.
how many people have noticed that the default tone for text messages beep-beep, beep-beep-beep, beep-beep is actually the Morse for SMS?
it's not what you've got, it's what you do with it that counts. all else is fanboy.
.. because i live in cambridge. the sainsbury's across town (a competitor, for all you non-UK types) does exactly the same trick to monitor the consumer but doesn't even try to conceal their efforts behind a chip. if you try to buy the same gillette blades there you have to physically explain to an actual person that you want the blades, that you're not going to nick them, that you might want specifically the gillette ones as opposed to some in-house crap, etc etc. so let's not get too excited about an invasion of privacy simply because it involves electronics. (yes i do realise that this is /., and no i don't work for tesco).
well, maybe not. if not, they deserve all they get for not being aware of the low quality of their service. in any case, this stupidity on their part only equates to that of the punter who fails themselves to spot the low service quality, by reading the small print. point being - never expect any service (or indeed anything else - except perhaps GPL, where profit=intellectual kudos) to behave in a manner other than to glean most profit for itself. whether or not the service actually manages to do so is their problem and beside the point.
welcome to capitalism. the point of buymusic is not to enable people to buy music, etc, but to make money for the guy (/gal) who owns it . the small print seems to cover the owner's ass, so the whole setup is probably legal (enough..); so the only reason for the owner to bother doing the thing properly would be to make more than the $100K or so he probably got in the first week before word got out that the service sucks. sounds like a reasonable business plan to me.
will the sentient office get pregnant & quit, like my secretary?
why do i engage in p2p? not necessarily cos i'm interested in the specific mp3 etc, instead because i can . when a law is brought into disrepute, such as copyright statutes here, i believe that the only sensible course of action is to fight to change the status quo - to change the law - rather than to attempt blindly to enforce the disreputable and unenforceable. and i'm not even a marxist.
my mother teaches people (engineering students ..) how to program motorola chips in hex. she also prefers windows to lindows.