---Media users? You mean the ones who buy shit on iTunes? They're going to use Linux? Right....
Im thinking of the people that I've set up machines to output video and audio in their home theater. We're talking about 1.5 TB nicely shuffled away but with a pretty interface to transfer all those DVD's to their library.
You'd be amazed how much people will pay for a nice machine that shares them over the network, and can play on their basement home theater.
---Regular companies? Running Win2k? Maybe those with less than 30 employees - any bigger than that and they're going to be running Vista by the time XP is end of life.
I dont think so. I still know of companies that STILL use Win98 because their software doesnt require buku hardware to run. And to top that off, I know only of 1 company (light industrial, ~50 machines) that uses XP, and thats from the japanese laptops.
Many, if not all companies will stay away from Vista, mainly for the remote root exploits (built in "feature").
Well, I hedging my bets and saying that no game company will make ONLY for DirectX 10. If you make for DX 9, it'll run on XP, 2000 and (I think) Me.
There's a lot of XP gamers out there, and most of those games will NOT work under Vista. You do know about that wonderful "GL acceleration" Vista does? Runs it sooooo fast you cant see it.
I wonder how long it takes to port an engine from OpenGL to DirectX...
Media companies: Heh heh, if you like 520p. Regular companies: 2000 is good enough for them. Small businesses: Whatever looks good to pirate (not vista). Gamers: PS3 and Wii, and XP (no game co's will make for one OS only) Media users: 2000 or Linux. Both play things good enough.
I have a pretty unpopular opinion here on Slashdot - I am broadly supportive of DRM. Fortunately I also have great karma and don't care much about losing it, so I don't mind arguing the case for DRM here. One of the things that bugs me about Slashdots DRM coverage is it's full of people pointing out problems, and never solutions.
And look at myself. People call me a troll, and well, I do admit that it's fun. However, I also enjoy arguing the opposite posited here on slash.
Ok, so you support DRM. I do not. Taking DRM out is easy, cause you end up with the raw files. What kind of DRM would work cross platform? I know of none. Sun does not count, because it is simply blocks on a diagram.
The basic problem DRM tries to solve is really simple - we want professionals to produce high quality 'creative works' despite us having technology that can replicate such an item for zero cost. The free market really can't cope with that at all, because it makes "supply" in the economic sense infinite therefore price becomes zero, implying that something has no value. That's clearly rubbish, and quality creative works definitely have value to millions of people.
That is definitely lower(as in deeper, not worthiness) than some computer rights issue. That is what economists could call a Capitalism issue. And sadly, a similar issue sits on the Communism side.
If we were to find a possible way to go round this, perhaps an auction style of buying media would work. Im looking in the same way Blender was made GPL, in that we hold works of art "hostage" until a certain target capital has been met, then release to them. That brings up game theory so that people balk to buy what they can receive later for free, but I see that as a possible solution for getting money when one wouldnt get any.
Nobody really knows how to design an economic system that works in the case of zero-cost-copies though so for now, we'll have to make do with what we've got - the free market - and bodge/hack things together until it works. These hacks will always be suboptimal and have lots of problems, hacks always do, but it's the only option right now. Typically this is done by preventing zero-cost copies, which allows the market to set a price, meaning the people who made the creative work get paid.
Well, how do you prevent copies when people within the industry create them? I was going to see that movie, and found that screener BEFORE the release date of the movie (Dec 25, 06) Sadly, its out of theaters now, and I either wait for a DVD or pirate it. Media companies complain about us sharing, but what about their own people?
As it happens, that's really hard. Computers copy information, that's what they do, and unfortunately people can't be trusted to just follow the rules of the system left to their own devices. Instead people do a cost:benefit analysis and think, well, it's not likely I'll be caught, so I'll go ahead and break the law. Who cares, everybody else does it anyway. So it has to be enforced at the technology level, otherwise we just screw ourselves over in the long run when content production just becomes economically unsupportable.
Well, that wouldnt be that bad of an idea, now would it? What would happen if the media companies did disappear within a year or 5? My estimates would be that we would have local stars and "Internet stars". TV would be relegated to show old media that was made before they quit, and radio would sound more like what we had in the 50's.
Here in Indiana, the counties around Indianapolis recently had a new tax to pay for the new Hoosierdome (or whatever corporate name they give it now). My sneaking suspicion would be that Federal government would get in the act of actively subsidizing artists and content creators, as the state has done in Indiana with sports.
If people would be willing to sue via Computer Hacking laws against Tom Tom? If not have it a tort case, why not make it a criminal case? The fact that they knew about it, and covered it up shows guilt.
These devices are going for ~540$ and with installed viruses to boot. Nice.
Well, if the criminals bodies are being propagated throughout the house, there'd be no need for locks.. However people arent EM.
The difference is each cell phone and tower emanate strong signals in which go through almost everything, including your property. The difference is you can build a radio that picks up this signal from inside your house, vs some weird-ass story of locking windows. The bad part is that Congress made it illegal to "pick up 800 MHz cell data". This is a legal block, not a technological block. Now, if the cell phones rotated a cipher every 2 seconds, then maybe we'd have a stance to go by, but they dont.
What makes you think that Cell Phone conversation is safe as well? We just understand that it all is open, whether the laws prevent "listening" or not. Encryption and obfuscation can be cracked, so whats the point. Just dont say things that are inappropriate.
And as I should note, We hams use distance of the wave to indicate frequency. 2 Meters is 144-148MHz, and.7 Meters is 420-450 MHz . The reason I specify a distinct band is that our rights only extend in those bands (and not, say 143.8 MHz or 452.1 MHz).
To grasp what rights we ham operators have, look at this PDF CHART to understand the spectrum here in the US.
Going over 70 cm to my autopatch hooked up to Vonage. Yes, 10 voice lines, as long as you have a license for amateur radio.
I dont carry a cell phone cause I despise the cell phone companies (well, and the phone co's they come from). The only true way to stick it to them is to go amateur radio instead.
---that's because at the top of a comment it says who it was written by, and what you did was plagiarism. your attempt to make excuses for it does not in any way change the fact that you passed another's comment off as your own. those of us who are bothered by this may not be able to punish you for your action, but we can mark you as a foe so we know before even reading your comments that you're an asshat.
If you could, you ought to consider WHY I do this? I give coherent arguments on other troll threads (well, I go against what the mainstream thought is) , but why did I copy, VERBATIM, in this post?
It is akin to satire. Dupe article gets dupe threads.. Now why nobody thought of posting dupe posts to my dupes, well, Oh well..
And, on my other trolls (which are ones that hold exactly oposite views of the majority here) do not include copying verbatim, unless quoting. And I didnt even copy any of your stuff (because it wanst considered highest quality), so you have no place to complain.
Optional goes back to ownership. I own it, I tell it what to do and what not to do. Nintendo is good in that respect. Like what you said, who knows what PS3 means by that, nor do I like it.
For those who read this, all it is just an advertisement that this guy is going to give a speech.
Now, whats with the "always on"? Arent most devices kept in a low-power standby in which they have instant on? Would you want to keep a game console 'always on'? I sure wouldnt, due to overheating and just plain wear n' tear.
Unless instant-on means something else other than keeping the device in high-power mode, I fail to understand the point.
Its really funny to have articles coming out with "50+ % of population has downloaded pirated movies", and whiners of DRM and 'all that is evil about copyright', but look what happens when I duplicate posts from a duplicated Article...
People are attacking me more than they attack the RIAA/MPAA. And I didnt even claim I was the writer.... they just assume that. I even explain to another commenter later on that I DIDNT WRITE THIS.
It was originally a joke, but you all need to chill.
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---Media users? You mean the ones who buy shit on iTunes? They're going to use Linux? Right....
Im thinking of the people that I've set up machines to output video and audio in their home theater. We're talking about 1.5 TB nicely shuffled away but with a pretty interface to transfer all those DVD's to their library.
You'd be amazed how much people will pay for a nice machine that shares them over the network, and can play on their basement home theater.
---Regular companies? Running Win2k? Maybe those with less than 30 employees - any bigger than that and they're going to be running Vista by the time XP is end of life.
I dont think so. I still know of companies that STILL use Win98 because their software doesnt require buku hardware to run. And to top that off, I know only of 1 company (light industrial, ~50 machines) that uses XP, and thats from the japanese laptops.
Many, if not all companies will stay away from Vista, mainly for the remote root exploits (built in "feature").
Erm, I like mkfs.ext3 better
But your mileage may vary
Well, I hedging my bets and saying that no game company will make ONLY for DirectX 10. If you make for DX 9, it'll run on XP, 2000 and (I think) Me.
There's a lot of XP gamers out there, and most of those games will NOT work under Vista. You do know about that wonderful "GL acceleration" Vista does? Runs it sooooo fast you cant see it.
I wonder how long it takes to port an engine from OpenGL to DirectX...
Who is going to use Vista?
Media companies: Heh heh, if you like 520p.
Regular companies: 2000 is good enough for them.
Small businesses: Whatever looks good to pirate (not vista).
Gamers: PS3 and Wii, and XP (no game co's will make for one OS only)
Media users: 2000 or Linux. Both play things good enough.
"I just bought a Dell": Vista.
Well... I think that sums it up.
Well said, but perhaps the answer is nothing.
I have a pretty unpopular opinion here on Slashdot - I am broadly supportive of DRM. Fortunately I also have great karma and don't care much about losing it, so I don't mind arguing the case for DRM here. One of the things that bugs me about Slashdots DRM coverage is it's full of people pointing out problems, and never solutions.
And look at myself. People call me a troll, and well, I do admit that it's fun. However, I also enjoy arguing the opposite posited here on slash.
Ok, so you support DRM. I do not. Taking DRM out is easy, cause you end up with the raw files. What kind of DRM would work cross platform? I know of none. Sun does not count, because it is simply blocks on a diagram.
The basic problem DRM tries to solve is really simple - we want professionals to produce high quality 'creative works' despite us having technology that can replicate such an item for zero cost. The free market really can't cope with that at all, because it makes "supply" in the economic sense infinite therefore price becomes zero, implying that something has no value. That's clearly rubbish, and quality creative works definitely have value to millions of people.
That is definitely lower(as in deeper, not worthiness) than some computer rights issue. That is what economists could call a Capitalism issue. And sadly, a similar issue sits on the Communism side.
If we were to find a possible way to go round this, perhaps an auction style of buying media would work. Im looking in the same way Blender was made GPL, in that we hold works of art "hostage" until a certain target capital has been met, then release to them. That brings up game theory so that people balk to buy what they can receive later for free, but I see that as a possible solution for getting money when one wouldnt get any.
Nobody really knows how to design an economic system that works in the case of zero-cost-copies though so for now, we'll have to make do with what we've got - the free market - and bodge/hack things together until it works. These hacks will always be suboptimal and have lots of problems, hacks always do, but it's the only option right now. Typically this is done by preventing zero-cost copies, which allows the market to set a price, meaning the people who made the creative work get paid.
Well, how do you prevent copies when people within the industry create them? I was going to see that movie, and found that screener BEFORE the release date of the movie (Dec 25, 06) Sadly, its out of theaters now, and I either wait for a DVD or pirate it. Media companies complain about us sharing, but what about their own people?
As it happens, that's really hard. Computers copy information, that's what they do, and unfortunately people can't be trusted to just follow the rules of the system left to their own devices. Instead people do a cost:benefit analysis and think, well, it's not likely I'll be caught, so I'll go ahead and break the law. Who cares, everybody else does it anyway. So it has to be enforced at the technology level, otherwise we just screw ourselves over in the long run when content production just becomes economically unsupportable.
Well, that wouldnt be that bad of an idea, now would it? What would happen if the media companies did disappear within a year or 5? My estimates would be that we would have local stars and "Internet stars". TV would be relegated to show old media that was made before they quit, and radio would sound more like what we had in the 50's.
Here in Indiana, the counties around Indianapolis recently had a new tax to pay for the new Hoosierdome (or whatever corporate name they give it now). My sneaking suspicion would be that Federal government would get in the act of actively subsidizing artists and content creators, as the state has done in Indiana with sports.
I don't like the fact t
And what would it take to be declared a librarian?
Perhaps a walk-in basement with a concrete pad (you know, cripple-people ramps) so that I could provide books and DVDs and software for rent..
If people would be willing to sue via Computer Hacking laws against Tom Tom? If not have it a tort case, why not make it a criminal case? The fact that they knew about it, and covered it up shows guilt.
These devices are going for ~540$ and with installed viruses to boot. Nice.
That seems obvious (to me..).
;-D
1 image is 5$.
1000 images is 5000$.
Programs can put images together into one massive image.
1 massivo-image-the-size-of-5000 5$.
I betcha the copyright office wouldnt like that one
"He violated my copyright at (5300px,0px to 5900px,600px)" (booo)
Well, if the criminals bodies are being propagated throughout the house, there'd be no need for locks.. However people arent EM.
The difference is each cell phone and tower emanate strong signals in which go through almost everything, including your property. The difference is you can build a radio that picks up this signal from inside your house, vs some weird-ass story of locking windows. The bad part is that Congress made it illegal to "pick up 800 MHz cell data". This is a legal block, not a technological block. Now, if the cell phones rotated a cipher every 2 seconds, then maybe we'd have a stance to go by, but they dont.
It isnt? Check out ARRL.org
Technicians Handbook: 25$
FCC Tech License test: 14$
2m/70cm radio : 150$
Unlimited geographical talking area with no contracts: Priceless
And now, the FCC has eliminated Morse Code from every test, so all you need is basic RF and electronics theory. Easy stuff.
What makes you think that Cell Phone conversation is safe as well? We just understand that it all is open, whether the laws prevent "listening" or not. Encryption and obfuscation can be cracked, so whats the point. Just dont say things that are inappropriate.
And as I should note, We hams use distance of the wave to indicate frequency. 2 Meters is 144-148MHz, and .7 Meters is 420-450 MHz . The reason I specify a distinct band is that our rights only extend in those bands (and not, say 143.8 MHz or 452.1 MHz).
To grasp what rights we ham operators have, look at this PDF CHART to understand the spectrum here in the US.
Going over 70 cm to my autopatch hooked up to Vonage. Yes, 10 voice lines, as long as you have a license for amateur radio.
I dont carry a cell phone cause I despise the cell phone companies (well, and the phone co's they come from). The only true way to stick it to them is to go amateur radio instead.
---that's because at the top of a comment it says who it was written by, and what you did was plagiarism. your attempt to make excuses for it does not in any way change the fact that you passed another's comment off as your own. those of us who are bothered by this may not be able to punish you for your action, but we can mark you as a foe so we know before even reading your comments that you're an asshat.
If you could, you ought to consider WHY I do this? I give coherent arguments on other troll threads (well, I go against what the mainstream thought is) , but why did I copy, VERBATIM, in this post?
It is akin to satire. Dupe article gets dupe threads.. Now why nobody thought of posting dupe posts to my dupes, well, Oh well..
And, on my other trolls (which are ones that hold exactly oposite views of the majority here) do not include copying verbatim, unless quoting. And I didnt even copy any of your stuff (because it wanst considered highest quality), so you have no place to complain.
By the way, whats an Asshat? Is that anal bum cover?
And I do like that OPTIONAL part.
Optional goes back to ownership. I own it, I tell it what to do and what not to do. Nintendo is good in that respect. Like what you said, who knows what PS3 means by that, nor do I like it.
They should have done better to protect it.
For those who read this, all it is just an advertisement that this guy is going to give a speech.
Now, whats with the "always on"? Arent most devices kept in a low-power standby in which they have instant on? Would you want to keep a game console 'always on'? I sure wouldnt, due to overheating and just plain wear n' tear.
Unless instant-on means something else other than keeping the device in high-power mode, I fail to understand the point.
Too true..
;-D
I should have, but it was soo worth it to see Sloppy(14984) come and "congratulate" me
Fair enough. I'd not associate around myself either online.
Its really funny to have articles coming out with "50+ % of population has downloaded pirated movies", and whiners of DRM and 'all that is evil about copyright', but look what happens when I duplicate posts from a duplicated Article...
People are attacking me more than they attack the RIAA/MPAA. And I didnt even claim I was the writer.... they just assume that. I even explain to another commenter later on that I DIDNT WRITE THIS.
It was originally a joke, but you all need to chill.
You should have posted in my journal. I'd engage you fairly there. My journal isnt a battle ground.
Consider it a compliment ;-D
Slashdot moderators and I found that QUITE INSIGHTFUL. Thank you for boosting the S/N ratio that I lower everyday.
the posts a dupe too dude.
If editors can dupe stories without checking back a week, why should I care if I go post +5's?
Just post a canned response from the post I took.
If the editors can dupe stories, I can dupe +5 posts.
;-D
Suck it down
What in the heck are those websites you linked to? They're all Korean to me...