So if you write a p2p app and declare it to be content-neutral (i.e "I don't care what you use it for") is that "promoting infringing uses"? What if you put a lot of ads in it saying "Sharing copyrighted material is very, Very Naughty. Please don't do it." Would that get you off the hook?
What a coincidence...I just read the new Wired (red cover with Spielberg on it) and if you pick it up you can read about the groovy thing that Dreamworks Animation did with their room. They share a lot of work across multiple sites and with clever use of bg screens, cameras and well lit rooms, they give a good illuson of having everyone in the same room, collaboratively editing documents/storyboards/"film" etc.
Offline till June 3rd though, at http://www.wired.com/wired/
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Jeez, four comments already, all whining. C'mon, this is a good guy who writes great games, LOVES his work and loves to make other people happy. You'll know I'm right when you actually try this thing and see, and feel, what a cool thing it is.
And if you'd waited 20 years for a project to reach a wide audience, you'd write a fair bit too.
Nicely done, Jeff, Giles and crew.
Please remember how much time passed between Star Trek TOS and the first movie...ten years, wasn't it (1969-1979)? As long as a Babylon 5 movie tells a good story it doesn't matter how old the original series is. Look at Battlestar Galactica - a campy old series is getting huge audiences and critical acclaim because they're telling a good story, and telling it well.
Why make it any thicker or heavier than you have to? The Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) used by NASA for the moon landings had skin not much thicker than aluminum foil in some places. Go here and scroll down to Science Moment. Two one-thousandths of an inch...that's damned thin!
Look again - there's a gold ring, or device of some kind around his thumb. The Sub Etha "thumb" doohickey, though in the book it wasn't worn like that (IIRC). No matter though, I think it's a neat change, and quite a small thing compared with some of the other changes from the book. But its got the blessing of many people who knew and loved Douglas Adams, so all power to them. Except the romance thing, I could live without that.
Sorry to be pedantic, but the Saturn V can not "go to the Moon and come back". It just shoves a few tons of payload out of Earth orbit. Most of the Saturn V ends up in the ocean. What actually went to the moon was the command module and lunar excursion module. All that came back to Earth was the command module.
I think there was an incident a few years ago where the Space Shuttle, while on orbit, came quite close (in astronomical terms) to a spent third stage of a Saturn V.
That's a true statement, logically speaking, but as someone who just went through two hurricanes, I can tell you it's probably true. Before each storm we stocked up on non-perishable food that we could eat while the power was off. Personally I wouldn't buy or eat a pop-tart if you paid me, but your mileage may vary.
Luckily our power came back less than 24 hours after each of the storms. It took us a couple of months to idly graze our way through the leftover chocolate chip cookies and granola bars though:)
I had almost the same thought when they first landed them on Mars, but I don't think the same design, including landing the darned thing in bouncy balloons, would necessarily work on Europa. I think I read that a lot of the the design was driven by the Martian environment (ie certain level of gravity, temperature, atmospheric density so the parachute would work, payload weight etc)
"Bigger solars panels" wouldn't cut it - some astronomy geek could tell us how pitifully weak the Sun's rays are by the time they get to Jupiter; far too weak to drive anything as hungry as a rover.
BUT I'd definitely be in favour of reusing the rover design for another trip to Mars. The current rovers cost $800M, but I think that included all the R&D - next time around it'll just be the fabrication, launch and controllers that need to paid for.
No, it *is* 62000 miles. The tether has to be that long to allow a suitable anchor to be attached at the other end and keep the right amount of tension on it. Or something./not rocket scientist, but mightily impressed at this bloody good idea.
I think his proposed solution is NO DRM - the Old Guard are seeing their business model being threatened by new technology, but this is just the latest in a long line of such situations. Each time this has happened, it results in a BIGGER MARKET being created, one which sees more content created and purchased.
The Old Guard (read: "anyone who wants to use DRM") is using legislation and technology to try and keep things the way they are, or rather, "like they are but on the Internet". I believe Cory is saying that the Internet should be unfettered, and certainly that constraints shouldn't be used to protect the old way of doing things. We'll all be better off just letting go and seeing what happens. Like they're doing with Net taxes and "controlling" porn. Funny how those two issues get a "wait and see" response, but copyright gets locked up faster than you can say "Senator's re-election campaign funds." Could it be they've got more and louder lobbyists ? Read Larry Lessig's "The Future of Ideas" for more on that train of thought.
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So if you write a p2p app and declare it to be content-neutral (i.e "I don't care what you use it for") is that "promoting infringing uses"? What if you put a lot of ads in it saying "Sharing copyrighted material is very, Very Naughty. Please don't do it." Would that get you off the hook?
What a coincidence...I just read the new Wired (red cover with Spielberg on it) and if you pick it up you can read about the groovy thing that Dreamworks Animation did with their room. They share a lot of work across multiple sites and with clever use of bg screens, cameras and well lit rooms, they give a good illuson of having everyone in the same room, collaboratively editing documents/storyboards/"film" etc. Offline till June 3rd though, at http://www.wired.com/wired/
Jeez, four comments already, all whining. C'mon, this is a good guy who writes great games, LOVES his work and loves to make other people happy. You'll know I'm right when you actually try this thing and see, and feel, what a cool thing it is. And if you'd waited 20 years for a project to reach a wide audience, you'd write a fair bit too. Nicely done, Jeff, Giles and crew.
Please remember how much time passed between Star Trek TOS and the first movie...ten years, wasn't it (1969-1979)? As long as a Babylon 5 movie tells a good story it doesn't matter how old the original series is. Look at Battlestar Galactica - a campy old series is getting huge audiences and critical acclaim because they're telling a good story, and telling it well.
It'd be interesting to know the opinion of the other committee members to having Mr Gator in their ranks.
Leeching off someone else's kids?
Why make it any thicker or heavier than you have to? The Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) used by NASA for the moon landings had skin not much thicker than aluminum foil in some places. Go here and scroll down to Science Moment. Two one-thousandths of an inch...that's damned thin!
Look again - there's a gold ring, or device of some kind around his thumb. The Sub Etha "thumb" doohickey, though in the book it wasn't worn like that (IIRC). No matter though, I think it's a neat change, and quite a small thing compared with some of the other changes from the book. But its got the blessing of many people who knew and loved Douglas Adams, so all power to them. Except the romance thing, I could live without that.
Sorry to be pedantic, but the Saturn V can not "go to the Moon and come back". It just shoves a few tons of payload out of Earth orbit. Most of the Saturn V ends up in the ocean. What actually went to the moon was the command module and lunar excursion module. All that came back to Earth was the command module. I think there was an incident a few years ago where the Space Shuttle, while on orbit, came quite close (in astronomical terms) to a spent third stage of a Saturn V.
That's a true statement, logically speaking, but as someone who just went through two hurricanes, I can tell you it's probably true. Before each storm we stocked up on non-perishable food that we could eat while the power was off. Personally I wouldn't buy or eat a pop-tart if you paid me, but your mileage may vary. Luckily our power came back less than 24 hours after each of the storms. It took us a couple of months to idly graze our way through the leftover chocolate chip cookies and granola bars though :)
I had almost the same thought when they first landed them on Mars, but I don't think the same design, including landing the darned thing in bouncy balloons, would necessarily work on Europa. I think I read that a lot of the the design was driven by the Martian environment (ie certain level of gravity, temperature, atmospheric density so the parachute would work, payload weight etc) "Bigger solars panels" wouldn't cut it - some astronomy geek could tell us how pitifully weak the Sun's rays are by the time they get to Jupiter; far too weak to drive anything as hungry as a rover. BUT I'd definitely be in favour of reusing the rover design for another trip to Mars. The current rovers cost $800M, but I think that included all the R&D - next time around it'll just be the fabrication, launch and controllers that need to paid for.
No, it *is* 62000 miles. The tether has to be that long to allow a suitable anchor to be attached at the other end and keep the right amount of tension on it. Or something. /not rocket scientist, but mightily impressed at this bloody good idea.
I think his proposed solution is NO DRM - the Old Guard are seeing their business model being threatened by new technology, but this is just the latest in a long line of such situations. Each time this has happened, it results in a BIGGER MARKET being created, one which sees more content created and purchased.
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The Old Guard (read: "anyone who wants to use DRM") is using legislation and technology to try and keep things the way they are, or rather, "like they are but on the Internet". I believe Cory is saying that the Internet should be unfettered, and certainly that constraints shouldn't be used to protect the old way of doing things. We'll all be better off just letting go and seeing what happens. Like they're doing with Net taxes and "controlling" porn. Funny how those two issues get a "wait and see" response, but copyright gets locked up faster than you can say "Senator's re-election campaign funds." Could it be they've got more and louder lobbyists ? Read Larry Lessig's "The Future of Ideas" for more on that train of thought.
And I agree