I liken DRM to the locks on my house: they keep the honest man honest.
Are you in control of the keys for your house? Or are the company which built the house in control so you have to get their permission if you want to give your children a key?
The problem with DRM is not that it fails to prevent you from ILLEGAL behaviour, but that it succeeds to prevent you from LEGAL behaviour.
Most countries have laws which gives you a right to make a copy of a work under certain circumstances (backup, copyright expiration, compatibility purposes, etc.). Quite often, the law also says that no agreement with the copyright holder can take away that right.
But DRM can make it impossible to make that copy without breaking the laws which forbid circumvention of DRM. So with DRM, they can take away a right which they according to law should not be able to take away.
DRM is basically the copyright holders' loophole around copyright law. They only want the benefits from that law.
we (in France) have a trillion euros debt, an economic situation (among others) that could be better and we're pumping 2 billions into THAT?
Of course. This makes a lot more sense than say, creating work for unemployed youths./sarcasm
Even here in the EU with all its strange use of money, I suppose that most of those 2 billions would eventually be spent on manpower. So it might actually also help in solving an employment problem.
You know what I see it useful in? A camera, so that it could automatically add the location to the EXIF data of each photo taken. I would think Google and Apple would be all over that kind of thing, since it would have really cool possibilities for iPhoto and Google Image Search. Too bad neither of them makes cameras...
3) Stove top -- Pots/pans/ect would have their own unique heating elements & the entire stove top would be usable
I liked your other ideas but this one is terrible. Every pot & pan in your kitchen would heat differently than the other, and not in that minor way that can be attributed to shape and thickness and easily judged at a glance.
For all known stove technologies, the heating depend somewhat on characteristics of the pots and pans used.
As others have mentioned, this induction technology is already on the market. We bought our induction stove 8 years ago. It is faster up and down than any other technology, including gas.
As long as we are using induction enabled pots and pans, the heat difference between each pot and pan is very small, and most important:
The differences are similar to the differences experienced with the same pots and pans on any other stove. As an example, a thick pan bottom will not change the heat effect, but temperature will change a little slower due to the extra heat capacity, while heat is distributed better due to the larger cross-sectional area.
Gas was once the best available stove technology. Today, it is only the best technology if you do not know induction or like to cling to old technology.
It is already flying. Just because it is not in commercial use yet, doesn't make it vapor ware.
I agree. My own personal criteria for using the "vaporware" term is:
1. Product is officially announced by the company which are supposed to bring it to market.
2. It is obvious to the public that the product will probably never ship to the market.
The A380 fulfills #1 (as opposed to some of the other items on Wired's list), but certainly not #2. I think it is obvious that the A380 will ship to the market with some delay.
I don't know whether this is true or not, about the FCC, but if it were - how could some vendors give OSS drivers, and some not?
They way I heard it, it was not the power output, but the frequency. Some wireless cards are apparently able to transmit on a wide range of frequencies, of which only some are allowed. If you have an open source driver for these cards, you can modify it so they use non-allowed frequencies.
So one possible answer to your question could be that not all cards have hardware support for non-allowed frequencies. Another possible answer could be that not all vendors agree on the interpretation of the requirements.
Your sign:
"Oolite: Elite-like game. For Mac, Linux and Windows [aegidian.org]" Makes me think...humm... "Dream the pilots with electronic space simulators?"
Sounds like a very good book. Perhaps we can persuade Ridley Scott to base a movie on it.
and heroes have far too easy a time using foreign systems.
What really impress me is the hero's ability to navigate through an old-fashioned paper archive.
The hero and the heroine break into the very big company, find the small room with the "Archives" sign on the door, open the drawer "E-G", browse through the nicely arranged folders, and pick the folder with the incrimination evidence.
Where I work, we have paper archives all over the place. Even though we know the system, it can take a day finding the information we are looking for.
Brand new market springs to light, really, it's the latest fad to have a tiny tin foil hat on your cellphone.
More real than you think.
Tracking the GPS in a cell phone is not a new thing. 1 year ago I was searching for a good 2-way tracking solution for cell phones (like www.mologogo.com). I stumbled over several employee-tracking solutions which seemed to offer exactly what is described in the summary (no, I did not RTFA). I also stumbled over some descriptions of how to circumvent the surveillance. Wrapping the phone in tin foil was one of them.
Apparantly, you can't just switch the phone off because the employer will be able to see that the phone was switched off. But if you wrap it in tin foil, it is not possible to tell if the loss of GPS/cell reception was intentional.
I don't see how GPS would work even as well as the cellphone signal itself. GPS cannot blast through buildings like that cell tower 300m away can, so it doesn't work indoors. It probably won't even work from inside your pocket. From my experience it won't work if the unit is turned upside-down. It also consumes fairly substantial power.
Modern SirfIII based GPS receivers (which means almost every fairly new receiver available except the cheapest models) work quite well under difficult conditions.
Glove compartments, pockets or bags only reduce the signal quality and thus accuracy, but you will get a position. They will work inside most buildings too. I have never seen them affected by turning them upside-down.
But the power consumption is a real issue. A bluetooth GPS receiver will usually work 8-15 hours on a battery of the same size as a cell phone battery. I don't know how much of this is caused by the bluetooth part.
Ummm...it's an email. You want him to print out the email, and then scan it?
Actually, I think he want the email scanned for bit potential.
It is a well-known fact (among experts at least) that the standard deviation of the bit potential is higher than usual in faked emails. In a normal email, the 0s usually varies between -0.05 and +0.05 and the 1s between 0.95 and 1.05.
In a faked email created with a cheap falsification program, it is not unusual to see variation up to +/- 0.3 from the nominal value.
Using military software it is possible to get very close to the bit variation of a genuine email, but Mr. Hunt probably does not have access to such software. I believe I would know if he had.
I assume that most of us have not learned Dutch (or Flemish or whatever you like to call it in Belgium). I haven't either, but combining my knowledge of English, German and Danish I reached this translation:
Question 1: On the motorway, you are followed by a jet fighter which flashes to pass you: a) I stop drinking in the morning. b) I pull out in the left lane a little faster than usual to avoid him passing me. c) I take the next exit because (something with a rocket he fired in war), the military cannot be trusted.
This is the third time I discover that a language I know (the existence of, at least) was created by a fellow dane. The two others were Turbo Pascal (Anders Hejlsberg) and PHP (Rasmus Lerdorf).
So now I have to ask: Have other danes created widely used languages, which I do not know of?
(I know that Hejlsberg have made a few more languages. I am counting persons, not languages.)
From the Wikipedia page: "Catch-22 is a term, coined by Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22, describing a general situation in which an individual has to accomplish two actions which are mutually dependent on the other action being completed first"
OTOH, whether you like it or not, XP in 2006 can run software made in 1995 without any problems whatsoever. All this means that businesses can get more mileage from their custom solutions and hence the market share disparity...
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I beg to differ. Windows XP happens to run things like Microsoft Word 6 and FrameMaker 5 - both of which are Windows 3.1 apps. I found that I can even run the Windows file manager from Windows 2 and 3 on XP just fine.
"Beg to differ"? I am still waiting for the "differ" part. Shouldn't there be some kind of disagreement when you use that expression?
So you are telling me if I have a $300 budget for a card and have an AGP board, I can magically replace a $200 mobo, $150 CPU AND get an equal "$300 AGP PCIe" card for only $300????
No, I am telling you that for the price difference between a 7600 GT PCI-e and a 7800 GS AGP you can buy an AMD Athlon64 3200+ and a motherboard.
Is it me or did they cheap out on the AGP suggestions?
You are paying a huge penalty for AGP. So huge that if you have a recent rig, you will have to spend a fortune for a GPU which is better than your current one. So the best general advice is really: Stick with your current GPU and save the money for later or buy a new PCI-e rig and finance most of it with the saving on the GPU.
Example: For the price difference between a 7600 GT PCI-e and a 7800 GS AGP you can buy an AMD Athlon64 3200+ and a motherboard which supports the DDR SDRAM you probably have on your old motherboard. This motherboard/CPU combo may not be what you really want, but it is "for free" since the two GPUs performs identically.
think the worst movie about a computer guy would have to be swordfish. Creating a worm doesn't involve moving little 3-D blocks around on a computer screen.
Well, they got the sound of that Tuscan right. I am willing to forgive them for everything else.
What I don't see is anyone (Including 10 year old girls) being able to successfully navigate and utilize a complex custom system such as would, oh, control an entire island's infrastructure in a few minutes.
That specific movie error is not limited to tech.
How often don't we see someone breaking into some company, finding the door with the "Archive" sign on it, go through the neatly arranged and alfabetically sorted drawers and finding the needed info in just about 20 seconds?
Every time I see that, I think "Gee, I wonder why I sometimes use half a day digging through old papers to find information - at the company where I work and where I know the archiving structure (if any)."
caught you speeding yesterday. I caught you speeding the day before.
I'm giving you a ticket today because you must have been speed since you did in the past.
Bullshit analogy.
Try this instead. Also a really bad analogy since it does not take into consideration that you do not need the same level of proof in a civil case. But anyway, here goes: On 38 occasions I saw you driving by with a big LED display on your car: "Right now I am driving 82 mph.", "Right now I am driving 73 mph" etc.
On 11 of those occasions I actually measured your speed and was able to confirm the reading on the display. I consequently trust that your display was telling the truth on the other 27 occasions.
It goes to damages. The damages are determined on a per-violation basis. The RIAA is arguing that they don't need the actual files to be obtainable to prove damages. I have evidence that says that they do:
Seems to me that they saw 38 files which could be music, protected by copyright.
They then took a sample consisting of 11 of those files to test if they actually were. All of those 11 files were the real thing. Then they conclude that the remaining 27 files with sufficient propability is the real thing too.
This is not saying "We do not need the actual files."
It is saying "We do need actual files, but an adequate sample must be enough to render probable that all files are what they seem to be".
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Are you in control of the keys for your house? Or are the company which built the house in control so you have to get their permission if you want to give your children a key?
The problem with DRM is not that it fails to prevent you from ILLEGAL behaviour, but that it succeeds to prevent you from LEGAL behaviour.
Most countries have laws which gives you a right to make a copy of a work under certain circumstances (backup, copyright expiration, compatibility purposes, etc.). Quite often, the law also says that no agreement with the copyright holder can take away that right.
But DRM can make it impossible to make that copy without breaking the laws which forbid circumvention of DRM. So with DRM, they can take away a right which they according to law should not be able to take away.
DRM is basically the copyright holders' loophole around copyright law. They only want the benefits from that law.
Even here in the EU with all its strange use of money, I suppose that most of those 2 billions would eventually be spent on manpower. So it might actually also help in solving an employment problem.
http://www.geospatialexperts.com/ricoh.html
http://scilib.typepad.com/science_library_pad/200
http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg
Are you claiming that editors are intelligently designed?
He wrote another editor for that purpose.
For all known stove technologies, the heating depend somewhat on characteristics of the pots and pans used.
As others have mentioned, this induction technology is already on the market. We bought our induction stove 8 years ago. It is faster up and down than any other technology, including gas.
As long as we are using induction enabled pots and pans, the heat difference between each pot and pan is very small, and most important:
The differences are similar to the differences experienced with the same pots and pans on any other stove. As an example, a thick pan bottom will not change the heat effect, but temperature will change a little slower due to the extra heat capacity, while heat is distributed better due to the larger cross-sectional area.
Gas was once the best available stove technology. Today, it is only the best technology if you do not know induction or like to cling to old technology.
I agree. My own personal criteria for using the "vaporware" term is:
1. Product is officially announced by the company which are supposed to bring it to market.
2. It is obvious to the public that the product will probably never ship to the market.
The A380 fulfills #1 (as opposed to some of the other items on Wired's list), but certainly not #2. I think it is obvious that the A380 will ship to the market with some delay.
They way I heard it, it was not the power output, but the frequency. Some wireless cards are apparently able to transmit on a wide range of frequencies, of which only some are allowed. If you have an open source driver for these cards, you can modify it so they use non-allowed frequencies.
So one possible answer to your question could be that not all cards have hardware support for non-allowed frequencies. Another possible answer could be that not all vendors agree on the interpretation of the requirements.
Sounds like a very good book. Perhaps we can persuade Ridley Scott to base a movie on it.
What really impress me is the hero's ability to navigate through an old-fashioned paper archive.
The hero and the heroine break into the very big company, find the small room with the "Archives" sign on the door, open the drawer "E-G", browse through the nicely arranged folders, and pick the folder with the incrimination evidence.
Where I work, we have paper archives all over the place. Even though we know the system, it can take a day finding the information we are looking for.
More real than you think.
Tracking the GPS in a cell phone is not a new thing. 1 year ago I was searching for a good 2-way tracking solution for cell phones (like www.mologogo.com). I stumbled over several employee-tracking solutions which seemed to offer exactly what is described in the summary (no, I did not RTFA). I also stumbled over some descriptions of how to circumvent the surveillance. Wrapping the phone in tin foil was one of them.
Apparantly, you can't just switch the phone off because the employer will be able to see that the phone was switched off. But if you wrap it in tin foil, it is not possible to tell if the loss of GPS/cell reception was intentional.
Modern SirfIII based GPS receivers (which means almost every fairly new receiver available except the cheapest models) work quite well under difficult conditions.
Glove compartments, pockets or bags only reduce the signal quality and thus accuracy, but you will get a position. They will work inside most buildings too. I have never seen them affected by turning them upside-down.
But the power consumption is a real issue. A bluetooth GPS receiver will usually work 8-15 hours on a battery of the same size as a cell phone battery. I don't know how much of this is caused by the bluetooth part.
No, around 20% of the electrical power comes from wind.
Only around 3% of the total power production/consumption in Denmark comes from wind.
Actually, I think he want the email scanned for bit potential.
It is a well-known fact (among experts at least) that the standard deviation of the bit potential is higher than usual in faked emails. In a normal email, the 0s usually varies between -0.05 and +0.05 and the 1s between 0.95 and 1.05.
In a faked email created with a cheap falsification program, it is not unusual to see variation up to +/- 0.3 from the nominal value.
Using military software it is possible to get very close to the bit variation of a genuine email, but Mr. Hunt probably does not have access to such software. I believe I would know if he had.
I assume that most of us have not learned Dutch (or Flemish or whatever you like to call it in Belgium). I haven't either, but combining my knowledge of English, German and Danish I reached this translation:
Question 1: On the motorway, you are followed by a jet fighter which flashes to pass you:
a) I stop drinking in the morning.
b) I pull out in the left lane a little faster than usual to avoid him passing me.
c) I take the next exit because (something with a rocket he fired in war), the military cannot be trusted.
The picture in the test is hilarious, by the way.
This is the third time I discover that a language I know (the existence of, at least) was created by a fellow dane. The two others were Turbo Pascal (Anders Hejlsberg) and PHP (Rasmus Lerdorf).
So now I have to ask:
Have other danes created widely used languages, which I do not know of?
(I know that Hejlsberg have made a few more languages. I am counting persons, not languages.)
Actually, I think the correct description in this case is Catch-22: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-22_(logic).
From the Wikipedia page:
"Catch-22 is a term, coined by Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22, describing a general situation in which an individual has to accomplish two actions which are mutually dependent on the other action being completed first"
You are paying a huge penalty for AGP. So huge that if you have a recent rig, you will have to spend a fortune for a GPU which is better than your current one. So the best general advice is really: Stick with your current GPU and save the money for later or buy a new PCI-e rig and finance most of it with the saving on the GPU.
Example:
For the price difference between a 7600 GT PCI-e and a 7800 GS AGP you can buy an AMD Athlon64 3200+ and a motherboard which supports the DDR SDRAM you probably have on your old motherboard. This motherboard/CPU combo may not be what you really want, but it is "for free" since the two GPUs performs identically.
That specific movie error is not limited to tech.
How often don't we see someone breaking into some company, finding the door with the "Archive" sign on it, go through the neatly arranged and alfabetically sorted drawers and finding the needed info in just about 20 seconds?
Every time I see that, I think "Gee, I wonder why I sometimes use half a day digging through old papers to find information - at the company where I work and where I know the archiving structure (if any)."
Bullshit analogy.
Try this instead. Also a really bad analogy since it does not take into consideration that you do not need the same level of proof in a civil case. But anyway, here goes:
On 38 occasions I saw you driving by with a big LED display on your car: "Right now I am driving 82 mph.", "Right now I am driving 73 mph" etc.
On 11 of those occasions I actually measured your speed and was able to confirm the reading on the display. I consequently trust that your display was telling the truth on the other 27 occasions.
Seems to me that they saw 38 files which could be music, protected by copyright.
They then took a sample consisting of 11 of those files to test if they actually were. All of those 11 files were the real thing. Then they conclude that the remaining 27 files with sufficient propability is the real thing too.
This is not saying "We do not need the actual files."
It is saying "We do need actual files, but an adequate sample must be enough to render probable that all files are what they seem to be".