That's why on every MacOS system I use, I always get this. I cannot live without it. That, combined with this, solve the problems you describe quite nicely.
On Mac OS X it's a little different, though. The "Types Change" plugin isn't available (yet?). But the "Open Using" plugin isn't really necessary, since you can force-open any file by dragging to an app in the dock while holding down command and option. Hopefully there will be a way to change the type and creator of a file on X soon, and all will be back to normal.
That's just a modernized version of a short story I read in high school English. I forgot was historical period it was set in, but it was about a man who couldn't read, so he lost his job and ended up doing something that made him rich. At the end of the story, someone asks a similar question, with a similar answer ("I'd still be doing ").
Unfortunately, I can't remember the name of the story. Anyone?
What does that mean, they "will be"? FX houses have already had Linux machines in their render farms for years now, starting with Titanic in 1997 and continuing right up until Final Fantasy.
I doubt that sort of thing would fly. A lawyer could probably argue that including an unauthorized copy of the key in any product would make it a "circumvention device", and thus illegal -- even if it didn't actually let users get at the data.
On the other hand, someone could make a device that included everything you needed except the key. By itself, it would not be a circumvention device, but if the user input the master key -- boom! Free access to everything. All the manufacturer would have to do is include a disclaimer that said, "You must have an authorized copy of the master key to use it with our device. We do not support unauthorized use of the master key." Of course, the device would probably also need to serve some useful function without the key. Kind of like DVD players that the manufacturer purposely makes easily-moddable to be region free. That might actually work. All that's needed is for someone to leak the master key, which is bound to happen sooner or later (as Ferguson points out).
This is a very good essay. It does an excellent job of explaining the problem with the DMCA succinctly, and in a manner than anyone can understand. I'm going to keep this link and use it whenever I want to explain the problem with the DMCA to someone non-technical.
Sound like it will be easy for others to duplicate his efforts:
"An experienced IT person could recover the master key in two weeks given four standard PCs and fifty HDCP displays," said Ferguson. "The master key allows you to recover every other key in the system and lets you decrypt [HDCP video content], impersonate a device, or create new displays and start selling HDCP compatible devices."
[snip]... he says it is a textbook example of a cryptographic attack.
Even if he never releases it himself, it'll be all over the place before too long, now that it's known to be possible. He gives a pretty good hint about how to duplicate his results.
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What can I say, I'm cynical. You're right that the people are bought and paid for along with the government. And that's why I don't see the point in me putting effort into carrying out my "civil responsibility" -- no one else will.
The greater a controlling power becomes, the more unstable it becomes until it topples. That is the really real truism of history.
Yeah, but this time it's different. At those times in history when oppressive regimes were toppled, there were no forms of mass entertainment to keep people down. People were miserable and had nothing to lose. Today, TV and other methods of "zoning out" are the great pacifiers of our society. As long as they exist, the people will never rise up.
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I found this quote interesting:
By insisting that digital technology is ineluctably beyond the reach of authority, Falco and others like him are inadvertently making it far more likely that the rules of operation of the worldwide intellectual commons that is the Internet will be established not through the messy but open processes of democracy but by private negotiations among large corporations.
The author of this article is deluding himself if he thinks there is any chance of the "messy but open processes of democracy" getting involved in internet regulation. No matter what attitude people take, corporate control will still be the order of the day, for a number of reasons -- not the least of which is that those "processes of democracy" don't exist any more. Corporations found them to be too inconvenient, so they bought them out a long time ago.
Corporate control of the net will happen, because that's the only thing that can happen in today's world. Sure, it would be nice if netizens got some of those silly myths the author talks about out of their heads and adopted a more realistic attitude, but it's not like that would do anything to prevent corporate control from setting in any way. You can't prevent it -- that's the real truism of the net.
No kidding. And there was no mention of arcade games at all. What about Atari's vector-based Battlezone?
And how about his silly comments regarding networking in games? I realize the main focus of the article was 3D, but it's pretty ridiculous for him to imply that Doom was the first networkable game. How about Bolo for the Mac? It had great LAN support several years before Doom. And before that, there were BBS-based games like Trade Wars.
Basically, that article was just an id software hagiography. He actually seemed to think he was doing the reader a favor by mentioning non-id games like Descent!
That professor has a long way to go before being able to write a true "history".
You may be right, but there's also no reason to assume they wouldn't hook that software up to every damn database they had access to. There have been a lot of news articles in recent years about various law enforcement agencies sharing data, and it wouldn't surprise me one bit to find out that they really did use the software to find him.
Hmm, maybe not. The sources I found are still not clear on whether the protest was in the actual Congressional office or just an office that the Congressman had rented.
In any case, the fact that the officers got off scott free is even more disturbing than what they did.
Oh yeah, I should have mentioned -- they were not trespassing. They were on public property. That Congressman's office was built and maintained with taxpayers' money.
Policemen torturing people for protesting on public property is a sign of an oppressive state. And the fact that no criminal or civil charges ever actually stuck in court is a confirmation that the state approves wholeheartedly of their actions.
We have legalized torture in the USA, too. It's just hidden by Newspeak terms such as "pain compliance". Ask the Humboldt County protesters who had pepper spray rubbed directly in their eyes if they think there is no such thing as torture in America. After watching that video clip off CNN, I no longer have any illusions. The USA is a police state.
Oh yeah? Then how did they track the guy down based on the photo? Guess what: they USED THE SOFTWARE to match his photo to the driver's license database.
The software sure as hell had SOMETHING to do with it.
They may have shot themselves in the foot with this paper. If an experimental scientist observes something strange, they should by all means report their results. But throwing wild speculation about things like anti-gravity into the mix is a quick way to get the results ignored. Why not just present the paper with no conlusion? Just say, "Here's what we found, can anyone make sense of it?"
Being the age you are, and a former projectionist, you ought to be one of the few people on this board who actually knows what 70mm 6-track is. I have to ask: doesn't it just kill you that it's gone now? Man, that was the shit. I love 70mm. I saw all the SW movies and all the Indiana Jones movies as 70mm blow-ups when they were first released. I used to think movies would always look and sound that good. Then it died out.
A couple of years ago, before the Northpark #1 in Dallas closed down (and was subsequently torn down -- f**k you Mr. Nasher!), they used to dig up old 70mm 6-track prints of 80s movies and show them at midnight shows. The last one I saw was a pretty nice print of "Aliens". After years of watching 35mm-only, it was a breath of fresh air to see just how good movies used to look and sound (today's digital sound formats are so heavily compressed, they actually sound worse than 6-track SR!). I pine for the days of 70mm.
Now we have to put up with people telling us that digital video projection will be better. It could be; it has the potential to be... but so far every demo I've seen just sucks ass. DLP is only 1280x1024. Every time I see it, my first reaction is, "hey, that looks like TV!" No joke. If they could somehow throw 4000x3000 video up on the screen with the full contrast and color range of film, I'd say go for it. But nobody seems interested in actually doing it right anymore. Hell, Lucas "filmed" Episode II with a freakin' HDTV camera! Ugh.
Furthermore, how is it exactly that TCP/MS would prevent things like Code Red from happening?
True, but Cringely's point is that even though it wouldn't prevent such things, MS could likely trick an unsuspecting public into thinking that it would, thus giving them a foot in the door towards 0wnage over the whole internet.
My question is, where did the gorillas, orangutans, etc. come from? The only apes I saw on the spaceship were chimps.
I'm pretty sure I saw at least one orangutan in those cages during the beginning of the movie. Also, one could argue that the genetic engineering they had done on the apes caused different species to emerge later -- but that's a bit of a stretch.
All 3 are works of fiction, thus explaining the horses in the most recent movie.
Why do people always think it's okay to excuse plot holes by saying "it's a work of fiction"? If the storyteller was too lazy and/or stupid to make the story self-consistent, then that's a flaw!
Next time you watch Tron take a look at the effects.. and know that no computers were used to do the effects. It must have employed all of Disney's animators to ink in each cell at a time to create this amazing movie. Of course the sequel will over use computer graphics and try to "push" the limits. This will take away so much that was the original Tron. Sigh.
Not true. There actually is about 15 minutes worth of computer animation in the movie. However, you are correct in that the majority of the movie is not computer animated.
The blue and red glowing lines on people's suits were done with photographic false-color techniques. To keep the glow off peoples faces, hand-drawn mattes were used to mask off those areas. You can see the edges of people's faces jiggling a little bit because the hand-drawn matte doesn't quite match from frame to frame. It's especially noticeable during the scenes before they escape (when the characters are all sitting in their prison cells talking).
I don't understand this statement by writer/director Steven Lisberger:
"When we created [the character] Tron, there were no PCs. We were looking at a possible future," Lisberger said.
The original "Tron" came out in 1982. There certainly were PCs at that time. Unless he created the character in the early 70s, and it took a long time to get the movie made, I don't see how that statement makes sense.
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On Mac OS X it's a little different, though. The "Types Change" plugin isn't available (yet?). But the "Open Using" plugin isn't really necessary, since you can force-open any file by dragging to an app in the dock while holding down command and option. Hopefully there will be a way to change the type and creator of a file on X soon, and all will be back to normal.
Unfortunately, I can't remember the name of the story. Anyone?
Yeah, unless you'd actually like some competition in the video card market.
You can buy NVIDIA, or NVIDIA. But hey, there's also NVIDIA! Oh, did I mention NVIDIA?
Why are they acting like this is something new?
On the other hand, someone could make a device that included everything you needed except the key. By itself, it would not be a circumvention device, but if the user input the master key -- boom! Free access to everything. All the manufacturer would have to do is include a disclaimer that said, "You must have an authorized copy of the master key to use it with our device. We do not support unauthorized use of the master key." Of course, the device would probably also need to serve some useful function without the key. Kind of like DVD players that the manufacturer purposely makes easily-moddable to be region free. That might actually work. All that's needed is for someone to leak the master key, which is bound to happen sooner or later (as Ferguson points out).
This is a very good essay. It does an excellent job of explaining the problem with the DMCA succinctly, and in a manner than anyone can understand. I'm going to keep this link and use it whenever I want to explain the problem with the DMCA to someone non-technical.
The greater a controlling power becomes, the more unstable it becomes until it topples. That is the really real truism of history.
Yeah, but this time it's different. At those times in history when oppressive regimes were toppled, there were no forms of mass entertainment to keep people down. People were miserable and had nothing to lose. Today, TV and other methods of "zoning out" are the great pacifiers of our society. As long as they exist, the people will never rise up.
Corporate control of the net will happen, because that's the only thing that can happen in today's world. Sure, it would be nice if netizens got some of those silly myths the author talks about out of their heads and adopted a more realistic attitude, but it's not like that would do anything to prevent corporate control from setting in any way. You can't prevent it -- that's the real truism of the net.
No, you're wrong. "Spear of Destiny" (singular) most certainly did not have textured ceilings or floors.
And how about his silly comments regarding networking in games? I realize the main focus of the article was 3D, but it's pretty ridiculous for him to imply that Doom was the first networkable game. How about Bolo for the Mac? It had great LAN support several years before Doom. And before that, there were BBS-based games like Trade Wars.
Basically, that article was just an id software hagiography. He actually seemed to think he was doing the reader a favor by mentioning non-id games like Descent!
That professor has a long way to go before being able to write a true "history".
You may be right, but there's also no reason to assume they wouldn't hook that software up to every damn database they had access to. There have been a lot of news articles in recent years about various law enforcement agencies sharing data, and it wouldn't surprise me one bit to find out that they really did use the software to find him.
In any case, the fact that the officers got off scott free is even more disturbing than what they did.
Policemen torturing people for protesting on public property is a sign of an oppressive state. And the fact that no criminal or civil charges ever actually stuck in court is a confirmation that the state approves wholeheartedly of their actions.
Also -- do you know that sort of thing is not that common in the US, or do you simply hope it's not that common?
We have legalized torture in the USA, too. It's just hidden by Newspeak terms such as "pain compliance". Ask the Humboldt County protesters who had pepper spray rubbed directly in their eyes if they think there is no such thing as torture in America. After watching that video clip off CNN, I no longer have any illusions. The USA is a police state.
Oh yeah? Then how did they track the guy down based on the photo? Guess what: they USED THE SOFTWARE to match his photo to the driver's license database.
The software sure as hell had SOMETHING to do with it.
They may have shot themselves in the foot with this paper. If an experimental scientist observes something strange, they should by all means report their results. But throwing wild speculation about things like anti-gravity into the mix is a quick way to get the results ignored. Why not just present the paper with no conlusion? Just say, "Here's what we found, can anyone make sense of it?"
No, it was clear he had known him a lot longer than that. They recognized each other when they met up after the Sand People's attack.
A couple of years ago, before the Northpark #1 in Dallas closed down (and was subsequently torn down -- f**k you Mr. Nasher!), they used to dig up old 70mm 6-track prints of 80s movies and show them at midnight shows. The last one I saw was a pretty nice print of "Aliens". After years of watching 35mm-only, it was a breath of fresh air to see just how good movies used to look and sound (today's digital sound formats are so heavily compressed, they actually sound worse than 6-track SR!). I pine for the days of 70mm.
Now we have to put up with people telling us that digital video projection will be better. It could be; it has the potential to be ... but so far every demo I've seen just sucks ass. DLP is only 1280x1024. Every time I see it, my first reaction is, "hey, that looks like TV!" No joke. If they could somehow throw 4000x3000 video up on the screen with the full contrast and color range of film, I'd say go for it. But nobody seems interested in actually doing it right anymore. Hell, Lucas "filmed" Episode II with a freakin' HDTV camera! Ugh.
True, but Cringely's point is that even though it wouldn't prevent such things, MS could likely trick an unsuspecting public into thinking that it would, thus giving them a foot in the door towards 0wnage over the whole internet.
I'm pretty sure I saw at least one orangutan in those cages during the beginning of the movie. Also, one could argue that the genetic engineering they had done on the apes caused different species to emerge later -- but that's a bit of a stretch.
Why do people always think it's okay to excuse plot holes by saying "it's a work of fiction"? If the storyteller was too lazy and/or stupid to make the story self-consistent, then that's a flaw!
Not true. There actually is about 15 minutes worth of computer animation in the movie. However, you are correct in that the majority of the movie is not computer animated.
The blue and red glowing lines on people's suits were done with photographic false-color techniques. To keep the glow off peoples faces, hand-drawn mattes were used to mask off those areas. You can see the edges of people's faces jiggling a little bit because the hand-drawn matte doesn't quite match from frame to frame. It's especially noticeable during the scenes before they escape (when the characters are all sitting in their prison cells talking).