The US of A is losing ground rapidly in the game of attracting and keeping the smart people. The more the US heads towards being a right wing Theocracy, the more people like myself are just going to stay the fuck away from the place. I mean, I have family there and stuff, but there is no way I'd willingly submit to the insanity that the citizens of the US are inviting into their lives.
Said sysadmin obviously has no clue how the court system works. Courts don't decide something is legal, they decide something is illegal. Everything else is inherently legal, until proven otherwise.
Obviously, they are scared of being hit on by RIAA for contributory negligence, but flipside I wouldn't be surprised if they could be sued by the student body for various transgressions inherent in their current action. On the flipside, are they going to ban email due to it's inherent p2p nature?
Wow, that was a load of badly written prose. Almost get the feeling it was about three press releases and four websites glued together. What does the age do for editors these days? Monkeys?
There is a lot of work going on in the podcasting world to utilise bit torrent to move content. The reason is simple, as the shows get popular, they kill their hosting accounts. See Evil Genius Chronicles for a podcaster using bit torrent distribution of his content.
In the bad old days (yeah I'm thirty in a handful of days, and i have been using and programming for 25 of them) games didn't have the hyper-real look to them. They didn't have specially mastered soundtracks, nor cinematic cut scenes.
But they did have gameplay. I remember sitting on the couch playing my old dick smith vz-200 with my brother, becuase the game encouraged co-operative play. And it was fun. I don't enjoy playing some tekken clone where the sole point of the game is to beat up the guy next to me.
Sure I can see my blood splattering everywhere as my avatar gets the crap beaten out of him, but it winds up leaving me with very little empathy for the guy i'm playing with.
The difference really comes down to the fact that the current titles are all derived from traditions coming out of the hyper-competitve japan school boy environment, whereas the old games came out of a very different co-operative environment of the old silicon valley.
When was the last time that hollywood didn't go for a remake or a further installment of a previously successful franchise?
Those of us in the real world are getting a lot more milage from watching euro films and the like. At least they have story tellers willing to be an original voice...
The biggest thing you can do in the current age of blogs is get your lead developers out into the blog community. This lets people interested in your technology follow the changes minute by minute. Even better if your developers then subscribe to customer's blogs. This creates a great community. One that is especially noticeable on Google.
Artists normally create a stream of content. Some of it brilliant, some of it good, and some it trash.
Recording companies can't currently sell streams of entertainment, they are manufacturing companies after all. They make their money by predicting and/or forcing the economy to buy in bulk stuff they have produced six months beforehand. If they either under or over produce, they are royally screwed.
Along comes duh internet. Artists can now publish infinite streams of content because the internet has no limit to the amount of content that can get published (think lossy compression;). It is in effect near zero lead time mass manufacturing for near zero cost.
So what can the artist and record company make a buck out of? As I have said before, the money comes from finding and shaping talent, and matching that talent with groups of consumers.
I'd willingly pay hard cash for a stream of mp3's that have my eclectic music tastes. Usually I have to buy two dud cd's for every good one I buy.
> Why do people continue to think they can build a secure system designed to simultaneous distribute data publicly and prevent its distribution?
Why? Because there is a lot of money on the table to anyone who can claim to have succeded.
You and I both know this is actually impossible. What really needs to happen is that the manufacturing companies need to realise they are in the business of creating intelligence (going back to the definition of intelligence as a signal stream that has information encoded in it), rather than trying to force fit their manufacturing mind set onto the internet.
By this, I mean that all the music companies should admit that distribution of mp3's et al is now, for better or worse, close enough to free to be negligable. They can now stop trying to guess which band is going to be this summer's big hit (and thus mass produce cds, dvds,...), and instead just release all their archives of data for free onto the market.
What they get once they have opened the floodgates, is the ability to charge people for finding precise information, and also for subscriptions to new information.
If there is one thing everyone needs to learn from crypto, its that security by hiding is no security.
Sure, actually fixing problems is more expensive in the short term than hiding the problems, but fixing problems is the only way that engineers et al will actually get trained to build things securely.
Otherwise, you just wind up with a large insecure infrastructure. Bad bad bad.
So let me get this straight, they are suggesting that a submarine can communicate securely with something else in the water... by being really noisy.
I can see that going down a treat when a sub is trying to keep itself invisible.
At least make the navbar black.
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I know the theory about the navbar having to be the same across all sites. Its crap.
Theme the navbar black, and give the X a box, the link to it being a close button is way to tenuous without it being button shaped. It looks like a link to some site called "X"...
And how doth this compare to BXXP?
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After reading the PDF's I can't but help see this and beep both hunting for the same ground. Thoughts?
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Keeping on doing the same thing, and expecting a different result.
The US of A is losing ground rapidly in the game of attracting and keeping the smart people. The more the US heads towards being a right wing Theocracy, the more people like myself are just going to stay the fuck away from the place. I mean, I have family there and stuff, but there is no way I'd willingly submit to the insanity that the citizens of the US are inviting into their lives.
Scared. Little. Children.
I'd really prefer they host and search audio. Would be so much more useful.
So i can figure out how long the fucker takes to crash. No wait. :-)
Said sysadmin obviously has no clue how the court system works. Courts don't decide something is legal, they decide something is illegal. Everything else is inherently legal, until proven otherwise.
Obviously, they are scared of being hit on by RIAA for contributory negligence, but flipside I wouldn't be surprised if they could be sued by the student body for various transgressions inherent in their current action. On the flipside, are they going to ban email due to it's inherent p2p nature?
Wow, that was a load of badly written prose. Almost get the feeling it was about three press releases and four websites glued together. What does the age do for editors these days? Monkeys?
For TV to be a killer app would require one thing. TV worth watching.
There is a lot of work going on in the podcasting world to utilise bit torrent to move content. The reason is simple, as the shows get popular, they kill their hosting accounts. See Evil Genius Chronicles for a podcaster using bit torrent distribution of his content.
In the bad old days (yeah I'm thirty in a handful of days, and i have been using and programming for 25 of them) games didn't have the hyper-real look to them. They didn't have specially mastered soundtracks, nor cinematic cut scenes.
But they did have gameplay. I remember sitting on the couch playing my old dick smith vz-200 with my brother, becuase the game encouraged co-operative play. And it was fun. I don't enjoy playing some tekken clone where the sole point of the game is to beat up the guy next to me.
Sure I can see my blood splattering everywhere as my avatar gets the crap beaten out of him, but it winds up leaving me with very little empathy for the guy i'm playing with.
The difference really comes down to the fact that the current titles are all derived from traditions coming out of the hyper-competitve japan school boy environment, whereas the old games came out of a very different co-operative environment of the old silicon valley.
When was the last time that hollywood didn't go for a remake or a further installment of a previously successful franchise?
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Those of us in the real world are getting a lot more milage from watching euro films and the like. At least they have story tellers willing to be an original voice
The biggest thing you can do in the current age of blogs is get your lead developers out into the blog community. This lets people interested in your technology follow the changes minute by minute. Even better if your developers then subscribe to customer's blogs. This creates a great community. One that is especially noticeable on Google.
ICANN finally admitting that they are run by, and for, the large groups with big pockets is just truth in advertising.
Something everyone should read and understand is Reed's Law as in the end ICANN et al don't matter a lot...
Artists normally create a stream of content. Some of it brilliant, some of it good, and some it trash.
Recording companies can't currently sell streams of entertainment, they are manufacturing companies after all. They make their money by predicting and/or forcing the economy to buy in bulk stuff they have produced six months beforehand. If they either under or over produce, they are royally screwed.
Along comes duh internet. Artists can now publish infinite streams of content because the internet has no limit to the amount of content that can get published (think lossy compression;). It is in effect near zero lead time mass manufacturing for near zero cost.
So what can the artist and record company make a buck out of? As I have said before, the money comes from finding and shaping talent, and matching that talent with groups of consumers.
I'd willingly pay hard cash for a stream of mp3's that have my eclectic music tastes. Usually I have to buy two dud cd's for every good one I buy.
> Why do people continue to think they can build a secure system designed to simultaneous distribute data publicly and prevent its distribution?
...), and instead just release all their archives of data for free onto the market.
Why? Because there is a lot of money on the table to anyone who can claim to have succeded.
You and I both know this is actually impossible. What really needs to happen is that the manufacturing companies need to realise they are in the business of creating intelligence (going back to the definition of intelligence as a signal stream that has information encoded in it), rather than trying to force fit their manufacturing mind set onto the internet.
By this, I mean that all the music companies should admit that distribution of mp3's et al is now, for better or worse, close enough to free to be negligable. They can now stop trying to guess which band is going to be this summer's big hit (and thus mass produce cds, dvds,
What they get once they have opened the floodgates, is the ability to charge people for finding precise information, and also for subscriptions to new information.
If there is one thing everyone needs to learn from crypto, its that security by hiding is no security.
Sure, actually fixing problems is more expensive in the short term than hiding the problems, but fixing problems is the only way that engineers et al will actually get trained to build things securely.
Otherwise, you just wind up with a large insecure infrastructure. Bad bad bad.
So let me get this straight, they are suggesting that a submarine can communicate securely with something else in the water ... by being really noisy.
I can see that going down a treat when a sub is trying to keep itself invisible.
I know the theory about the navbar having to be the same across all sites. Its crap.
Theme the navbar black, and give the X a box, the link to it being a close button is way to tenuous without it being button shaped. It looks like a link to some site called "X"...
After reading the PDF's I can't but help see this and beep both hunting for the same ground. Thoughts?