I don't consider it Big Brotherish because you're not actively being 'watched', nor can the government or big companies access your files or tell you what you can't do with them. You have full freedom, as much as non-watermarked files, except that if you ever decide to pirate them to the masses, there's a trace back to you.
The only real problem I can see is that if someone hacks your machine, they could steal and make public all your files which would trace back to you.
What if each (let's say movie) contained several hundred watermarks, and any two files would have X number of equal marks. Then, even if you take out the marks that are different, you can still trace down (to a degree) the files by the remaining marks. Every concurrent watermarked and 'equalised' pirated release would allow even more accurate tracing.
Most piracy groups only have one source of their files. It would be hard for them to get enough sources to categorically remove all watermarks. If they worked together with another group, they'd have to make sure the files are encoded with the same codec, resolution and settings.
I like the idea of watermarking. I think a complex system of watermarking would make it a lot harder to pirate items. Plus the consumer wouldn't be targetted, only the source of the pirated copies. And there wouldn't be any DRM. Making it harder to pirate is what it is all about, because making it impossible is still science fiction.
Yes. Companies will sell at the highest possible price they can get you to pay. If they don't have to lower prices, they certainly won't. Shoplifting causes considerable dents in profits to companies like Walmart, but if all shoplifting stops, Walmart's prices would remain the same.
One certainty in life is a company like Walmart's greed.
For another thing, why should you care about keeping the price down when you shoplift?
That one day these will be mandatory, and that they will be placed as a chip under the skin of the hand or the forehead. If you don't have one of these chips, you won't be able to pay for anything or even buy food.
'In compact cameras, I think that the megapixel race is pretty much over,'
And 640K should be enough for everyone!
I wouldn't mind the ability to zoom in on pictures. I expect the future photo albums to be digital anyway (be it digital paper or something similar). What if you could zoom in on a bird in the background, or even the reflection on someone's glasses? What if you could take holiday shots of a mountain or bridge, and then zoom in later to count animals and people.
Also, as other people have mentioned, having lossless picture formats would be 3
To make IT believe they spotted and fixed the problem. It's an ego thing; if you tell them the problem and the fix, they have nothing to do anymore.
Tell them your machine is really slow lately and the harddrive runs like mad. Sometimes you get a 'Not enough RAM' error, but you have no idea what that could possibly mean.
Chances are you'll have your stick within a day.
Alternatively, ask your cute receptionist to go over in miniskirt and take a few sticks of RAM; they'll never know what hit them.
The people who make a living bulk importing brand new things from China and re-selling them on ebay are NOT going to be happy about this.
Actually, almost all of the Chinese listings are in Chinese, and very few of the sellers will be able to speak useful English to any degree. It's almost impossible for any 'average' ebayer to buy products from Chinese sellers, so I don't think those bulk importers have to worry yet.
the MAFIAA are afraid of losing power. The Internet weakens their position as artists can release their creativity directly to the users. Maybe they know they're fading away and are trying to lash out in panic to try and keep their position to some degree.
I remember the MAFIAA calling pirates 'Parasites who feed off of other people's creativity', which I thought was a cunning description of themselves.
Because whereas we sometimes get mistreated by the admins, we can't really voice our frustrations. Taco on the other hand, can misuse the public Slashdot forum to blow off some of his personal steam.
I hope Taco will remember his frustration when dealing with/. members who frustrate him but don't actually do anything wrong.
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Actually, you needed to get a score of 1000 to win, but it was impossible to get a score that high.
There is a 1.666GHz Core Duo LV which is lower power.
If it overheats, will it burn forever?
I don't consider it Big Brotherish because you're not actively being 'watched', nor can the government or big companies access your files or tell you what you can't do with them. You have full freedom, as much as non-watermarked files, except that if you ever decide to pirate them to the masses, there's a trace back to you.
The only real problem I can see is that if someone hacks your machine, they could steal and make public all your files which would trace back to you.
What if each (let's say movie) contained several hundred watermarks, and any two files would have X number of equal marks. Then, even if you take out the marks that are different, you can still trace down (to a degree) the files by the remaining marks. Every concurrent watermarked and 'equalised' pirated release would allow even more accurate tracing.
Most piracy groups only have one source of their files. It would be hard for them to get enough sources to categorically remove all watermarks. If they worked together with another group, they'd have to make sure the files are encoded with the same codec, resolution and settings.
I like the idea of watermarking. I think a complex system of watermarking would make it a lot harder to pirate items. Plus the consumer wouldn't be targetted, only the source of the pirated copies. And there wouldn't be any DRM. Making it harder to pirate is what it is all about, because making it impossible is still science fiction.
Watermarking gets my thumbs up.
I'm playing EQ2 on win2k fine?
Yes. Companies will sell at the highest possible price they can get you to pay. If they don't have to lower prices, they certainly won't. Shoplifting causes considerable dents in profits to companies like Walmart, but if all shoplifting stops, Walmart's prices would remain the same.
One certainty in life is a company like Walmart's greed.
For another thing, why should you care about keeping the price down when you shoplift?
That one day these will be mandatory, and that they will be placed as a chip under the skin of the hand or the forehead. If you don't have one of these chips, you won't be able to pay for anything or even buy food.
'In compact cameras, I think that the megapixel race is pretty much over,' And 640K should be enough for everyone! I wouldn't mind the ability to zoom in on pictures. I expect the future photo albums to be digital anyway (be it digital paper or something similar). What if you could zoom in on a bird in the background, or even the reflection on someone's glasses? What if you could take holiday shots of a mountain or bridge, and then zoom in later to count animals and people. Also, as other people have mentioned, having lossless picture formats would be 3
To make IT believe they spotted and fixed the problem. It's an ego thing; if you tell them the problem and the fix, they have nothing to do anymore.
Tell them your machine is really slow lately and the harddrive runs like mad. Sometimes you get a 'Not enough RAM' error, but you have no idea what that could possibly mean.
Chances are you'll have your stick within a day.
Alternatively, ask your cute receptionist to go over in miniskirt and take a few sticks of RAM; they'll never know what hit them.
Considering that astronauts are almost exclusively male, I'm not sure I want to be a member of this club.
Am looking forward to a Google and Sun made anti spyware program.
The people who make a living bulk importing brand new things from China and re-selling them on ebay are NOT going to be happy about this.
Actually, almost all of the Chinese listings are in Chinese, and very few of the sellers will be able to speak useful English to any degree. It's almost impossible for any 'average' ebayer to buy products from Chinese sellers, so I don't think those bulk importers have to worry yet.
But has anyone else noticed that the article itself is only about 7% of the visual webpage?
but it seems it takes up a lot of CPU even if I'm only downloading one torrent. So instead I switched to ABC, which seems good enough for now.
Though I might definitely give some of the other ones in the list a go.
Your best bets are to keep an eye on these sites
http://www.ffii.org/ (especially)
http://www.fsf.org/
http://www.eff.org/
They usually have links where you can join them and help them in any way they need it.
the MAFIAA are afraid of losing power. The Internet weakens their position as artists can release their creativity directly to the users. Maybe they know they're fading away and are trying to lash out in panic to try and keep their position to some degree.
I remember the MAFIAA calling pirates 'Parasites who feed off of other people's creativity', which I thought was a cunning description of themselves.
Why is NASA warning us of cluttered space? How are we to do anything about it? Isn't it NASA (and other equivalents) that cause this?
The next release will be to run the military helicopters, BlackHawk Linux(tm).
Because whereas we sometimes get mistreated by the admins, we can't really voice our frustrations. Taco on the other hand, can misuse the public Slashdot forum to blow off some of his personal steam.
I hope Taco will remember his frustration when dealing with /. members who frustrate him but don't actually do anything wrong.
Don't be so shellfish, there's more than enough karma for everyone.
I assumed the original poster meant the capacity of a Titanic; how much coal could fit into one. Not the Titanic's actual usage.
That's what I went for, anyway.
The average computer uses as much as 1¾ Titanics worth of coal to run on any given day.
How did you come at this number? It is totally absurd. Someone recently claimed something similar, so I did some calculations as to how much coal is actually needed to run a computer for a day, which is about 8 kilograms worth.
As it turns out, 1.25 Titanics worth of coal would run your computer for millions of years.
I've been using arcadepod.com and others for years. I don't see why this is news or even /. article worthy.
I was thinking about the snap, crackle and pop sound my computer will make after sparkle is installed =/
You forgot:
Democrats think Republicans have no sense of humor.