And all media players copy the media into system memory to play it, including most portable players. How long before this becomes unauthorized copying as well?
But 10, 20, 30 years from now, that crowd will be *everybody*. What will happen then?
I'd say one of two things, either the media industry agrees to a compromise, in which they have to conceed just as much as the "pirates", or the media industry as we know it will cease to exist. Honestly I'd be happy with either scenario. It's not like all forms of media will suddenly evaporate just because people can't make millions anymore. Christ some actors are getting over $20 million for one film, and they want us to believe the MPAA is having a hard time because of piracy? Give me a break.
But this shouldn't be news to anyone here. Personally I welcome the future and the changes it'll bring, it's about time the media industry's death grip on entertainment is reset.
The TV show Viper did it 10 years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtJLlQYs1rY. In some ways it was better than Knight Rider, but not without it's own rediculous technologies. Transformer style "morphing", EMP guns, harpoon cables fired from little gun pods on the sides able to suspend a musclecar without breaking etc. But no 0-60 in 0.2 seconds, and no talking car. Which is a bit of a shame, KITT was always the best part of Knight Rider IMO.
... for a game that could have been, Freespace 3. Way to leave us all hanging Volition:(
At least the game was continued by a source code release and player designed campaigns, still it would have been nice to get an official conclusion to the story.
If the asteroid does hit the impact site would probably make for a good rover mission. Fresh samples of long buried rock without the extra hassle of having to dig it up!
The one from 3 years ago was Toshiba's "4S" reactor ("Super-Safe, Small and Simple") designed to produce 10MW of power (much more than this new "micro reactor"). In other words the 4S is a real nuclear plant (albeit a small one), complete with a small staff to run it. Wikipedia link.
Fully agreed. The advertising to music ratio is already horrible in most Canadian cities, you'd be lucky to hear more than two songs before they dive into another 5-10 minute advertising binge. And those 2 songs are almost always crap anyway. I've already stopped listening altogether, with the exception of the local non-profit college radio station that plays music outside the mainstream with pretty much zero advertising in between. Once a year they hold a big fundraising drive that barely gets them through another year, but the music they play is leaps and bounds better than the garbage on the other "Rick Dees Weekly Top 40" stations. And most of the smaller bands featured love the free exposure, which is how radio should be.
After crawling the web a bit I found a few more interesting links about Toshiba's "Micro-Nuke" technology. First an article from 2005 about a similar Toshiba reactor running on liquid Sodium that was slated to be installed in a remote Alaskan village some time before 2010. This doesn't appear to be the same reactor as mentioned here on/.
A blog entry with more information and links about this and other small reactors.
It seems to be fairly safe, though I can't imagine the red tape they'll have to get through in order to begin installing them, especially in North America. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the US has about a 60 month process to certify a reactor from the time the application is filed, Toshiba probably has a head start on this application from 2005 with its "4S" mini-reactor, but this new Lithium version will probably need its own application process. They plan to build these things at least 30m underground, encased in steel and concrete walls that probably put most bank vaults to shame, so I don't think tampering will be a major issue.
First we learn to change our DNA as we see fit. In an "ideal" world I could imagine this being common place in less than 50 years, but factoring in politics, beaurocracy and ethical concerns and I wouldn't be so optimistic.
Then we master the physical world, down to the single atom. We've already made great strides toward this end, but think replicators from Star Trek. The ability to efficiently build up any form of matter from single atoms.
Not long after that we'll bridge the two disciplines. Now a body doesn't have to be solely organic, hell it doesn't even have to be a body in the form we have today. Most people may choose to keep the standard two arms, two legs, 10 fingers and toes form simply because it's what we've always known, but a select few might take a completely different path. For those who've read Vaccuum Diagrams by Stephen Baxter think Silver Ghosts.
At this point the seperation between the mental and physical worlds can be erased completely, whatever we imagine we can create, or be. Absolutely everything would be changed. Money has no use, every physical resource becomes renewable, the seperation between reality and the virtual, or the imagination, disappears completely. Death becomes a rare occurance. Space travel becomes a simple matter. The possibilites are endless.
Maybe this scenario is far too optimistic, but we're in for a very interesting century either way.
I loaded package cars for UPS for a few months during college and I can certainly understand why driving for them would be a stressful job. There were many days when package cars were stuffed from top to bottom, leaving barely enough space to open the back door, especially around Christmas time (oh, how we all hated Christmas time...). Any way to shave time off deliveries would likely be very welcomed by the drivers. Some were on the road from 8 am to 8 pm nearly every day.
On a related note, putting a "Fragile" sticker on your package gets you nowhere. Every second package to go through UPS is marked "Fragile"; after a few days of seeing this most package handlers just stop caring.
With every answer a few mouse clicks away maybe it's time we start teaching children how to filter the good information from the bad, instead of just teaching them how to regurgitate facts on a piece of paper. Wikipedia is a great research tool when used correctly, Yahoo Answers is a great way to get a quick "close enough" answer to a question that's been bugging you. If kids were taught this simple distinction this debate would be pointless.
This "problem" of too much information is only going to get worse, lets start teaching kids how to deal with it.
http://www.spaceweather.com/nlcs/gallery2007_page9.htm has a Noctilucent Cloud gallery. I haven't seen them yet myself, but it'll be interesting to see if AIM manages to find an explanation for them. It's an intriguing mystery!
If the RIAA assumes each download is a lost sale then logically every album downloaded must equate to one less record sale. If the number of lost record sales and the number of total downloads each year aren't equal I don't see how they can legally make the claims they do. 50 million downloads of pirated albums should equate to a 50 million unit drop in annual record sales, do we see that? I don't.
So, if every download can't with certainty be a lost sale, how can they claim such outlandish damages?
TFA says (in the comments section) that this sub will likely be noisier than US versions, I'll just paste the relevent stuff:
JC: One big question: How noisy is it? Can our attack subs track it and take it out if necessary?
Reply: Probably, but since the Chinese won't talk about their capability, and our intelligence people won't say anything about what they know, it is impossible to answer your question with certainty. But it helps remembering what we do know:
1. The Jin-class is only China's second-generation nuclear-powered submarine.
2. The first-generation (Han- and Xia-class) subs were very noisy.
3. The first SSBN (Xia) has never been fully operational nor ever sailed on a deterrent patrol.
4. China's entire submarine force conducts less than a handful patrols each year.
5. US anti-submarine capabilities and propulsion systems were developed over five decades of Cold War with the Soviet Union, via trial and error of over 100 submarines of a dozen different classes with numerous different propulsion systems.
6. The US attack submarine force conducts several dozen patrols each year, is constantly forward deployed, and has done so since the 1960s.
7. The US SSBN force of 14 boats conducts over 35 deterrent patrols each year (most of them in the Pacific), each lasting 70 days.
I seriously doubt anyone in our submarine community would want to swap sub capabilities with China.
Interesting that the domain mivii.com (not miivi.com) redirects to firstload.de, which seems to be a service very similar to the now defunkt miivi.com, except in German. You download their client software which is proported to "speed up downloads", while they offer terabytes of movies, games, software, music and more.
Firstload.de has been online since October 2005, it's registered to "Verimount FZE LLC" which seems to have no connection to MediaDefender or any other such anti-p2p company. Perhaps the purpose of MediaDefender's miivi.com had something to do with firstload.de? A phishing scheme in progress? miivi and mivii would be easy to confuse...
It never ceases to amaze me how well politicians manage to sell a broad and generalized law on the basis of coincidence in a handful of specific cases. A murderer confesses to having viewed violent porn, thus we need a law to criminalize possession of violent porn for everyone? This kind of flawed logic is coming up more and more these days, especially in anything to do with politics or law.
General law shouldn't be based on extraordinary cases.
Likewise, from a 9600 Pro to an X1800 XL AIW to the X1950 Pro. Never had any problems updating the drivers, though starting Windows with Last Known Good Configuration has completely gaffed them up every time.
Not yet anyway. It's old news by now that ATI's drivers are always behind the curve as far as product launches go, I wouldn't be surprised if Catalyst hasn't been optimized at all for the newest line of Radeons. I suspect performance of all the 2xxx cards will magically climb in the next few months as better drivers are released. To ATI's credit the drivers do end up working well, it just takes them a little longer to get there...
The RIAA. They've made the situation worse for themselves at just about every opportunity with their "this is the way it has been, this is the way it always will be" attitude. All things change in a dynamic environment, only the short sighted and naive believe the status quo can be maintained indefinately. Instead of accepting the coming changes they faught them every step of the way.
Recently I bought the new Nine Inch Nails album. Not because I felt the need to support their label, not because I prefer my music on CD's (I don't), and not because it was a good album (though it was). I bought it because a glimmer of imagination and creativity went into its production. The CD appears black until it's played, once it's been heated up by the laser it turns white and reveals previously hidden writing on the CD itself, along with a bit of binary code that can be translated into a URL. Finally, a reason (albeit a small one) to own the physical media again. A little something extra that's pretty interesting and can't be owned without buying the album. This is adaptation, and it's a trend the rest of the music industry should be following. It's time to offer more than just 12 tracks burned to a CD in a cheap plastic case, it's time to justify the $20 price tag in an age where the same music can and is being distributed globally for free. And for god's sake it's time to let some good music through, instead of this constant stream of generic crap.
Most of all, it's time for the RIAA to go away and make room for a new generation of music entertainment, one that isn't terrified by change.
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And all media players copy the media into system memory to play it, including most portable players. How long before this becomes unauthorized copying as well?
But 10, 20, 30 years from now, that crowd will be *everybody*. What will happen then?
I'd say one of two things, either the media industry agrees to a compromise, in which they have to conceed just as much as the "pirates", or the media industry as we know it will cease to exist. Honestly I'd be happy with either scenario. It's not like all forms of media will suddenly evaporate just because people can't make millions anymore. Christ some actors are getting over $20 million for one film, and they want us to believe the MPAA is having a hard time because of piracy? Give me a break.
But this shouldn't be news to anyone here. Personally I welcome the future and the changes it'll bring, it's about time the media industry's death grip on entertainment is reset.
Really, income from this wave of Chuck Norris jokes is about all he's got left, give the man his cut from the book sales and move on.
(could you see KITT launching UAVs? :P),
The TV show Viper did it 10 years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtJLlQYs1rY. In some ways it was better than Knight Rider, but not without it's own rediculous technologies. Transformer style "morphing", EMP guns, harpoon cables fired from little gun pods on the sides able to suspend a musclecar without breaking etc. But no 0-60 in 0.2 seconds, and no talking car. Which is a bit of a shame, KITT was always the best part of Knight Rider IMO.
Eh... should have said "way to leave us hanging Interplay", it's not Volition's fault the publishers refuse to give up the liscense.
... for a game that could have been, Freespace 3. Way to leave us all hanging Volition :(
At least the game was continued by a source code release and player designed campaigns, still it would have been nice to get an official conclusion to the story.
If the asteroid does hit the impact site would probably make for a good rover mission. Fresh samples of long buried rock without the extra hassle of having to dig it up!
The one from 3 years ago was Toshiba's "4S" reactor ("Super-Safe, Small and Simple") designed to produce 10MW of power (much more than this new "micro reactor"). In other words the 4S is a real nuclear plant (albeit a small one), complete with a small staff to run it. Wikipedia link.
Fully agreed. The advertising to music ratio is already horrible in most Canadian cities, you'd be lucky to hear more than two songs before they dive into another 5-10 minute advertising binge. And those 2 songs are almost always crap anyway. I've already stopped listening altogether, with the exception of the local non-profit college radio station that plays music outside the mainstream with pretty much zero advertising in between. Once a year they hold a big fundraising drive that barely gets them through another year, but the music they play is leaps and bounds better than the garbage on the other "Rick Dees Weekly Top 40" stations. And most of the smaller bands featured love the free exposure, which is how radio should be.
After crawling the web a bit I found a few more interesting links about Toshiba's "Micro-Nuke" technology. First an article from 2005 about a similar Toshiba reactor running on liquid Sodium that was slated to be installed in a remote Alaskan village some time before 2010. This doesn't appear to be the same reactor as mentioned here on /.
A blog entry with more information and links about this and other small reactors.
It seems to be fairly safe, though I can't imagine the red tape they'll have to get through in order to begin installing them, especially in North America. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the US has about a 60 month process to certify a reactor from the time the application is filed, Toshiba probably has a head start on this application from 2005 with its "4S" mini-reactor, but this new Lithium version will probably need its own application process. They plan to build these things at least 30m underground, encased in steel and concrete walls that probably put most bank vaults to shame, so I don't think tampering will be a major issue.
What's to stop a few people from plagiarising (directly or indirectly) a bunch of articles on the most popular subjects as soon as this service opens?
First we learn to change our DNA as we see fit. In an "ideal" world I could imagine this being common place in less than 50 years, but factoring in politics, beaurocracy and ethical concerns and I wouldn't be so optimistic.
Then we master the physical world, down to the single atom. We've already made great strides toward this end, but think replicators from Star Trek. The ability to efficiently build up any form of matter from single atoms.
Not long after that we'll bridge the two disciplines. Now a body doesn't have to be solely organic, hell it doesn't even have to be a body in the form we have today. Most people may choose to keep the standard two arms, two legs, 10 fingers and toes form simply because it's what we've always known, but a select few might take a completely different path. For those who've read Vaccuum Diagrams by Stephen Baxter think Silver Ghosts.
At this point the seperation between the mental and physical worlds can be erased completely, whatever we imagine we can create, or be. Absolutely everything would be changed. Money has no use, every physical resource becomes renewable, the seperation between reality and the virtual, or the imagination, disappears completely. Death becomes a rare occurance. Space travel becomes a simple matter. The possibilites are endless.
Maybe this scenario is far too optimistic, but we're in for a very interesting century either way.
I loaded package cars for UPS for a few months during college and I can certainly understand why driving for them would be a stressful job. There were many days when package cars were stuffed from top to bottom, leaving barely enough space to open the back door, especially around Christmas time (oh, how we all hated Christmas time...). Any way to shave time off deliveries would likely be very welcomed by the drivers. Some were on the road from 8 am to 8 pm nearly every day.
On a related note, putting a "Fragile" sticker on your package gets you nowhere. Every second package to go through UPS is marked "Fragile"; after a few days of seeing this most package handlers just stop caring.
Or they could be the result of something as simple as rocket exhaust...
Calling them a "clear symptom" of global warming is a bit hasty IMO.
With every answer a few mouse clicks away maybe it's time we start teaching children how to filter the good information from the bad, instead of just teaching them how to regurgitate facts on a piece of paper. Wikipedia is a great research tool when used correctly, Yahoo Answers is a great way to get a quick "close enough" answer to a question that's been bugging you. If kids were taught this simple distinction this debate would be pointless.
This "problem" of too much information is only going to get worse, lets start teaching kids how to deal with it.
http://www.spaceweather.com/nlcs/gallery2007_page9.htm has a Noctilucent Cloud gallery. I haven't seen them yet myself, but it'll be interesting to see if AIM manages to find an explanation for them. It's an intriguing mystery!
IT'S A TRAP!!!
If the RIAA assumes each download is a lost sale then logically every album downloaded must equate to one less record sale. If the number of lost record sales and the number of total downloads each year aren't equal I don't see how they can legally make the claims they do. 50 million downloads of pirated albums should equate to a 50 million unit drop in annual record sales, do we see that? I don't.
So, if every download can't with certainty be a lost sale, how can they claim such outlandish damages?
how quiet will this boat be submerged?
TFA says (in the comments section) that this sub will likely be noisier than US versions, I'll just paste the relevent stuff:
JC: One big question: How noisy is it? Can our attack subs track it and take it out if necessary?
Reply: Probably, but since the Chinese won't talk about their capability, and our intelligence people won't say anything about what they know, it is impossible to answer your question with certainty. But it helps remembering what we do know:
1. The Jin-class is only China's second-generation nuclear-powered submarine.
2. The first-generation (Han- and Xia-class) subs were very noisy.
3. The first SSBN (Xia) has never been fully operational nor ever sailed on a deterrent patrol.
4. China's entire submarine force conducts less than a handful patrols each year.
5. US anti-submarine capabilities and propulsion systems were developed over five decades of Cold War with the Soviet Union, via trial and error of over 100 submarines of a dozen different classes with numerous different propulsion systems.
6. The US attack submarine force conducts several dozen patrols each year, is constantly forward deployed, and has done so since the 1960s.
7. The US SSBN force of 14 boats conducts over 35 deterrent patrols each year (most of them in the Pacific), each lasting 70 days.
I seriously doubt anyone in our submarine community would want to swap sub capabilities with China.
Interesting that the domain mivii.com (not miivi.com) redirects to firstload.de, which seems to be a service very similar to the now defunkt miivi.com, except in German. You download their client software which is proported to "speed up downloads", while they offer terabytes of movies, games, software, music and more.
Firstload.de has been online since October 2005, it's registered to "Verimount FZE LLC" which seems to have no connection to MediaDefender or any other such anti-p2p company. Perhaps the purpose of MediaDefender's miivi.com had something to do with firstload.de? A phishing scheme in progress? miivi and mivii would be easy to confuse...
I leave the speculation to you.
It never ceases to amaze me how well politicians manage to sell a broad and generalized law on the basis of coincidence in a handful of specific cases. A murderer confesses to having viewed violent porn, thus we need a law to criminalize possession of violent porn for everyone? This kind of flawed logic is coming up more and more these days, especially in anything to do with politics or law.
General law shouldn't be based on extraordinary cases.
Likewise, from a 9600 Pro to an X1800 XL AIW to the X1950 Pro. Never had any problems updating the drivers, though starting Windows with Last Known Good Configuration has completely gaffed them up every time.
Not yet anyway. It's old news by now that ATI's drivers are always behind the curve as far as product launches go, I wouldn't be surprised if Catalyst hasn't been optimized at all for the newest line of Radeons. I suspect performance of all the 2xxx cards will magically climb in the next few months as better drivers are released. To ATI's credit the drivers do end up working well, it just takes them a little longer to get there...
The RIAA. They've made the situation worse for themselves at just about every opportunity with their "this is the way it has been, this is the way it always will be" attitude. All things change in a dynamic environment, only the short sighted and naive believe the status quo can be maintained indefinately. Instead of accepting the coming changes they faught them every step of the way.
Recently I bought the new Nine Inch Nails album. Not because I felt the need to support their label, not because I prefer my music on CD's (I don't), and not because it was a good album (though it was). I bought it because a glimmer of imagination and creativity went into its production. The CD appears black until it's played, once it's been heated up by the laser it turns white and reveals previously hidden writing on the CD itself, along with a bit of binary code that can be translated into a URL. Finally, a reason (albeit a small one) to own the physical media again. A little something extra that's pretty interesting and can't be owned without buying the album. This is adaptation, and it's a trend the rest of the music industry should be following. It's time to offer more than just 12 tracks burned to a CD in a cheap plastic case, it's time to justify the $20 price tag in an age where the same music can and is being distributed globally for free. And for god's sake it's time to let some good music through, instead of this constant stream of generic crap.
Most of all, it's time for the RIAA to go away and make room for a new generation of music entertainment, one that isn't terrified by change.
For those unaware linguists out there: wat tends to be the abbreviated form of what
Yeah obviously 4 letters is too much to type, better make it 3.
Only on the internet...