Imagine if a company that made a real physical object tried this. Cars that crashed or drove the wrong direction 90% of the time. Or a kitchen disposal that ground up your hand in addition to the kitchen waste.
You mean like a missile defence system that can't tell the difference between a real warhead and a decoy?
But seriously, an easy way to defeat this software would be to use the imaging equivilant of ROT13, and simply invert all the pictures for distribution and storage, the viewing software could invert them back. If the filtering software gets wise to this, the ammount of color shifting could be made more flexible. Or you could just encrypt everything.
You could say the same about money. The problem is that copying money degrades the currency.
IANAL, but... Your analogy is invalid. The prohibition on counterfeiting has to do with the fact that money (at least paper money) is really a note representing a promise or certification that a certain valuable good exists and is uniquely represented by that piece of paper. It has been upheld (in court) that you can copy currency all you want as long as it is not being copied for the purpose of fraud. More specifically, you can create your own currency as long as you do not represent it as being guaranteed by the Federal Reserve. This is often referred to as "local currency". Another example: there is an artist that produces "money" that is nearly an exact replica of us-currency. he then uses his "money" to purchase goods (from retailers who are informed as to the nature of his "money"). he then sells the goods (and the receipt and any cash change he receives from the retailer) to an art dealer. the art dealer negotiates with the retailer to purchase the "money". the "money", product purchased, receipt, and change comprise the complete work of art, and is displayed as a single piece. this is of course a very round-about implementation of local currency, which is perfectly legal. In Burlington Vermont we have local currency (not currently widely accepted) called Burlington Bread, and many other localities in the US have similar things. US currency is not copyrighted, AFAIC.
If the "street performer protocol" and other methods are really a more efficient way of doing things, then surely, it should replace the copyright system -- because it will give consumers a better deal without harming the author.
The original poster did not mention Street Performer Protocol, you did. Moreover, SPP is a new idea, and I expect it will gain more use then it has now. It is clear, however, that many intellectual property producers would rather continue to use the current copyright process. This is because large corporations have been able to manipulate the government to make the copyright laws more and more favorable to them and less favorable to the American public.
I am having a hard time deciding which is cooler, flywheels or thermophotovoltaic generators. I guess I will just have to hope for a tpv/flywheel electric hybrid car to be made. That would seriously kick ass.
Imagine a planetary scale flywheel, with a radius approximately the same as the earth, or a little less if you bury it about a mile down. If two could be built with perpindicular axes (one a little deeper then the other), it would not only be possible to store vast ammounts of energy, the rotation of the earth itself could be controled!
I'm 26 and I've never, ever, seen a handgun in real life. In fact, that vast majority of Canadians can say the same..
Well, I'm 27 and I live (and grew up in) Vermont, which has among the most libertarian gun policy in the US. You don't even need to get a permit to carry a concealed handgun here. Our crime rates are quite low, although I do not have any statistics to cite.
As a membor of a minority which is not well represented in the police, and actively excluded from the military, I am not about to support handing those two forces a monopoly on gun ownership. If I am attacked on the street by a bigoted thug I would prefer to be able to defend myself rather then rely solely on a police force which may be hostle to me.
Furthermore, the phrase "The right of the people to keep and bare arms shall not be infringed" is pretty hard to misinterpret, and I think it is much more dangerous to go tinkering around with the Bill Of Rights then it is to have a few guns around.
From the article: Under the settlement, Visa USA agreed to forgive the debt, and will collect the money instead from the gambling sites.
That seems to imply that Visa will not technically be forgiving the debt, but instead are going reverse the charge and will simply not pay the gambling sites.
Then again, this may be perfectly equivalent, but I am not a lawyer.
Dude, at a half light-year away you're talking some serious transit time. You might want to make this vacation part of a career change, or perhaps your retirement Grand Tour.
When I retire, I don't plan on living my last millenia in this solar system, or even this galaxy. I plan on retiring to the Smal Magelenic Cloud. Of course, this would be after nanotech makes me almost immortal.
You are the average idiot the industry is seeking for. Which normal person can be happy to pay more for a laserdisc which has poorer sound and none special features at all.
Excuse me? I am the one here who is not willing to purchase a new player every eighteen months. For your information, the digital audio encoding on the LD is *identical* to the encoding on the DVD. See below about the special features.
Do you have DD 5.1?
My LD player supports that and has the digital outputs for when I decide to get a receiver that supports DD 5.1, and most of my discs have audio encoded in that format.
Do you have Special Commentary Track? Do you have all the other Features?
Yes, The Matrix LD does have the commentary track as well as the behind the scenes documentary. It does not have the whole web site on it, but who cares about that?
No? Ok, then be happy with your overpriced LD and shut up.
The LD has superior packaging and *actually works* on every laserdisc player ever made, including the ones from the nineteen-seventies.
Except that The Matrix LD is at least twice the size or maybe even 3x the size and probably has to be flipped to get the extra features.
I *like* the fact that the disk is bigger, you get a nice large jacket to go with it. My player plays both sides automatically.
It probably doesn't have the PC extras either, like the entire website on the disc. While I wouldn't replace (right away anyway) an entire collection of LDs with DVDs, I think the DVD format is far superior to LD.
I wouldn't say far superior, but DVD video does have a few more lines of resolution. The (digital) audio is identical, however. Some DVD's have exhibited compression artifacts during heavy action sequences, LD's don't have this problem because they don't use compression. Of course, the video on LD's is analog, and low end players can show some "chroma noise" occasionally. As far as extras, The Matrix LD has a running audio commentary, and "Behind-the-scenes documentaries".
My LD collection is small (about fourty titles), but approximately twenty of them are unavailable on DVD (mostly Star Wars and Robotech, which are unlikely to be on DVD for a few years anyway, I think Lucas said that the Star Wars DVD's wouldn't be coming out until after Episode III is done showing in theatres)
Pardon me while I laugh at all of the folks who are dumping their entire Laserdisc collections on eBay to replace them with DVD's. I just got my LD copy of The Matrix which I expect to function flawlessly, just like my Star Wars LD's.
I don't know if there is any connection between this and the URouLette that was around back when there were just a few thousand web sites out there, but it is pretty cool, and doesn't seem to be limited to what is in the dictionary, and will send you to url's that are more complex then www.foo.com.
I think what hapined is that when Apple was testing this rom update, since they didn't ever claim that the machines would be G4 upgradable, they simply didn't test it with a G4 chip.
Consider that it is XLR8, not Apple, that is saying that it was intentional. Now when XLR8 comes out with their upgrade that gets around this, they will have that added 'cool' factor of having beaten the big evil Apple. Therefore I find anything that XLR8 says on this issue to be suspect.
That being said, it is certainly possible that Apple did this intentionally, but I think that the scenerio described above is more likely. In any case, there will be a fix that will get around this, with or without Apple's help.
No amount of RAM or money will make a Windows notebook run Photoshop as fast as a Lombard series Powerbook. The desktop G3 at 400MHz runs Photoshop 35% faster then a 500MHz Pentium III, and the 400MHz G3 powerbook is only a little slower then the desktop, while current PC notebooks are a lot slower then a PIII500.
Actually, it has one SODIMM slot which can take a 128MB module for a total of 160MB. It is possible in the future that there will be a 256MB module that will phisically fit in the available space, which would make for a maximum of 288MB.
politics and culture are all related to one another, something few new or old media entities grasp. This was vastly more interesting than anybody on the East Coast was doing, then or now.
Well, I beg to differ. 2600 Magazine is an east coast publication, and is, was, and always will be superior to Wired in those terms. Of course, the 2600 vision of the future isn't as utopian...
I got a perfect score in Golden Axe, but of course a couple of thousand other people have probably done the same, it's pretty easy. I can also play Q*Bert on my C64 indefinately, after a while, it stops getting harder, and never stops giving you extra lives. The Pac-Man thing is quite an acomplishment, I never had the patience for that game!
I don't know about cerial, but the company that makes Goldfish Crackers sued (and won) to prevent another company from marketing similar goldfish shaped crackers. I think that an "O" is just too generic a shape to sue over, but a goldfish shaped cracker, or the imac case, or the distenctive shape of a coca cola bottle, or the body of a VW Beatle would be. Then again, IANAL.
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I can rent four movies for four nights for six bucks at my local video store. Even if I returned them late, it would still be chaper then DIVX.
And if I wanted to take the bus into the next town, I could rent five laserdiscs for five nights for five bucks. Can't beat that.
You mean CED's? I almost bid on one of those that some damn fool listed in the LD section on eBay. Receiving a CED when expecting an LD would have pissed me off more then when I got my Ranma 1/2 LD with an unmentioned hole punch in the jacket.
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Well, IANAL, but I think it is a bit of a gray area. All of the mods I have seen for region coding also disable the silly macrovision encoding, which is at least on the illegal side of the gray area. Most of the imported DVD's from Japan that i've seen have language printed on them to the effect that they are only licensed for use in Japan, and they warn of dire consequenses if that is violated. (Download MAME and one of the Japaneese ROM sets and you'll see the blurb that I'm talking about)
On July 1, 2001, DIVX will be a dead format. Perhaps the only dead format, but it will be dead dead dead dead dead.
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Oh, and one more thing, I'll be enjoying my LD collection long after June 30, 2001.
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In terms of being a consumer friendly product, LD is to DVD what DVD is to DIVX.
DVD has the region coding, which means that I can't buy Japaneese imported DVD's and play them without brakin' the law, and they also have the macro encoding, which even if you don't want to make illegal copies is inconvienient if you don't have enough inputs on your TV, and need to use the ones on your VCR.
I can also get LD's really cheap now because all the fools are replacing their whole collections with DVD's. There are also many many titles which are on LD but will never see the light of DVD, at least not any time soon.
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Imagine if a company that made a real physical object tried this. Cars that crashed or drove the wrong direction 90% of the time. Or a kitchen disposal that ground up your hand in addition to the kitchen waste.
You mean like a missile defence system that can't tell the difference between a real warhead and a decoy?
But seriously, an easy way to defeat this software would be to use the imaging equivilant of ROT13, and simply invert all the pictures for distribution and storage, the viewing software could invert them back. If the filtering software gets wise to this, the ammount of color shifting could be made more flexible. Or you could just encrypt everything.
You could say the same about money. The problem is that copying money degrades the currency.
IANAL, but... Your analogy is invalid. The prohibition on counterfeiting has to do with the fact that money (at least paper money) is really a note representing a promise or certification that a certain valuable good exists and is uniquely represented by that piece of paper. It has been upheld (in court) that you can copy currency all you want as long as it is not being copied for the purpose of fraud. More specifically, you can create your own currency as long as you do not represent it as being guaranteed by the Federal Reserve. This is often referred to as "local currency". Another example: there is an artist that produces "money" that is nearly an exact replica of us-currency. he then uses his "money" to purchase goods (from retailers who are informed as to the nature of his "money"). he then sells the goods (and the receipt and any cash change he receives from the retailer) to an art dealer. the art dealer negotiates with the retailer to purchase the "money". the "money", product purchased, receipt, and change comprise the complete work of art, and is displayed as a single piece. this is of course a very round-about implementation of local currency, which is perfectly legal. In Burlington Vermont we have local currency (not currently widely accepted) called Burlington Bread, and many other localities in the US have similar things. US currency is not copyrighted, AFAIC.
If the "street performer protocol" and other methods are really a more efficient way of doing things, then surely, it should replace the copyright system -- because it will give consumers a better deal without harming the author.
The original poster did not mention Street Performer Protocol, you did. Moreover, SPP is a new idea, and I expect it will gain more use then it has now. It is clear, however, that many intellectual property producers would rather continue to use the current copyright process. This is because large corporations have been able to manipulate the government to make the copyright laws more and more favorable to them and less favorable to the American public.
I am having a hard time deciding which is cooler, flywheels or thermophotovoltaic generators. I guess I will just have to hope for a tpv/flywheel electric hybrid car to be made. That would seriously kick ass.
Imagine a planetary scale flywheel, with a radius approximately the same as the earth, or a little less if you bury it about a mile down. If two could be built with perpindicular axes (one a little deeper then the other), it would not only be possible to store vast ammounts of energy, the rotation of the earth itself could be controled!
I'm 26 and I've never, ever, seen a handgun in real life. In fact, that vast majority of Canadians can say the same..
Well, I'm 27 and I live (and grew up in) Vermont, which has among the most libertarian gun policy in the US. You don't even need to get a permit to carry a concealed handgun here. Our crime rates are quite low, although I do not have any statistics to cite.
As a membor of a minority which is not well represented in the police, and actively excluded from the military, I am not about to support handing those two forces a monopoly on gun ownership. If I am attacked on the street by a bigoted thug I would prefer to be able to defend myself rather then rely solely on a police force which may be hostle to me.
Furthermore, the phrase "The right of the people to keep and bare arms shall not be infringed" is pretty hard to misinterpret, and I think it is much more dangerous to go tinkering around with the Bill Of Rights then it is to have a few guns around.
From the article:
Under the settlement, Visa USA agreed to forgive the debt, and will collect the money instead from the gambling sites.
That seems to imply that Visa will not technically be forgiving the debt, but instead are going reverse the charge and will simply not pay the gambling sites.
Then again, this may be perfectly equivalent, but I am not a lawyer.
Dude, at a half light-year away you're talking some serious transit time. You might want to make this vacation part of a career change, or perhaps your retirement Grand Tour.
When I retire, I don't plan on living my last millenia in this solar system, or even this galaxy. I plan on retiring to the Smal Magelenic Cloud. Of course, this would be after nanotech makes me almost immortal.
You are the average idiot the industry is seeking for. Which normal person can be happy to pay more for a laserdisc which has poorer sound and none special features at all.
Excuse me? I am the one here who is not willing to purchase a new player every eighteen months. For your information, the digital audio encoding on the LD is *identical* to the encoding on the DVD. See below about the special features.
Do you have DD 5.1?
My LD player supports that and has the digital outputs for when I decide to get a receiver that supports DD 5.1, and most of my discs have audio encoded in that format.
Do you have Special Commentary Track?
Do you have all the other Features?
Yes, The Matrix LD does have the commentary track as well as the behind the scenes documentary. It does not have the whole web site on it, but who cares about that?
No? Ok, then be happy with your overpriced LD and shut up.
The LD has superior packaging and *actually works* on every laserdisc player ever made, including the ones from the nineteen-seventies.
Except that The Matrix LD is at least twice the size or maybe even 3x the size and probably has to be flipped to get the extra features.
I *like* the fact that the disk is bigger, you get a nice large jacket to go with it. My player plays both sides automatically.
It probably doesn't have the PC extras either, like the entire website on the disc. While I wouldn't replace (right away anyway) an entire collection of LDs with DVDs, I think the DVD format is far superior to LD.
I wouldn't say far superior, but DVD video does have a few more lines of resolution. The (digital) audio is identical, however. Some DVD's have exhibited compression artifacts during heavy action sequences, LD's don't have this problem because they don't use compression. Of course, the video on LD's is analog, and low end players can show some "chroma noise" occasionally. As far as extras, The Matrix LD has a running audio commentary, and "Behind-the-scenes documentaries".
My LD collection is small (about fourty titles), but approximately twenty of them are unavailable on DVD (mostly Star Wars and Robotech, which are unlikely to be on DVD for a few years anyway, I think Lucas said that the Star Wars DVD's wouldn't be coming out until after Episode III is done showing in theatres)
If anyone finds anything out about possible work arounds that WB might be developing (Besides VHS) then let me know!
The Matrix is available on Laserdisc.
Pardon me while I laugh at all of the folks who are dumping their entire Laserdisc collections on eBay to replace them with DVD's. I just got my LD copy of The Matrix which I expect to function flawlessly, just like my Star Wars LD's.
Check out URouLette
I don't know if there is any connection between this and the URouLette that was around back when there were just a few thousand web sites out there, but it is pretty cool, and doesn't seem to be limited to what is in the dictionary, and will send you to url's that are more complex then www.foo.com.
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I think what hapined is that when Apple was testing this rom update, since they didn't ever claim that the machines would be G4 upgradable, they simply didn't test it with a G4 chip.
Consider that it is XLR8, not Apple, that is saying that it was intentional. Now when XLR8 comes out with their upgrade that gets around this, they will have that added 'cool' factor of having beaten the big evil Apple. Therefore I find anything that XLR8 says on this issue to be suspect.
That being said, it is certainly possible that Apple did this intentionally, but I think that the scenerio described above is more likely. In any case, there will be a fix that will get around this, with or without Apple's help.
No amount of RAM or money will make a Windows notebook run Photoshop as fast as a Lombard series Powerbook. The desktop G3 at 400MHz runs Photoshop 35% faster then a 500MHz Pentium III, and the 400MHz G3 powerbook is only a little slower then the desktop, while current PC notebooks are a lot slower then a PIII500.
sorry, RAM is expandable to *128MB* NOT 264...
Actually, it has one SODIMM slot which can take a 128MB module for a total of 160MB. It is possible in the future that there will be a 256MB module that will phisically fit in the available space, which would make for a maximum of 288MB.
politics and culture are all related to one another, something few new or old media entities grasp. This was vastly more interesting than anybody on the East Coast was doing, then or now.
Well, I beg to differ. 2600 Magazine is an east coast publication, and is, was, and always will be superior to Wired in those terms. Of course, the 2600 vision of the future isn't as utopian...
I got a perfect score in Golden Axe, but of course a couple of thousand other people have probably done the same, it's pretty easy. I can also play Q*Bert on my C64 indefinately, after a while, it stops getting harder, and never stops giving you extra lives. The Pac-Man thing is quite an acomplishment, I never had the patience for that game!
I don't know about cerial, but the company that makes Goldfish Crackers sued (and won) to prevent another company from marketing similar goldfish shaped crackers. I think that an "O" is just too generic a shape to sue over, but a goldfish shaped cracker, or the imac case, or the distenctive shape of a coca cola bottle, or the body of a VW Beatle would be. Then again, IANAL.
I can rent four movies for four nights for six bucks at my local video store. Even if I returned them late, it would still be chaper then DIVX.
And if I wanted to take the bus into the next town, I could rent five laserdiscs for five nights for five bucks. Can't beat that.
You mean CED's? I almost bid on one of those that some damn fool listed in the LD section on eBay. Receiving a CED when expecting an LD would have pissed me off more then when I got my Ranma 1/2 LD with an unmentioned hole punch in the jacket.
Well, IANAL, but I think it is a bit of a gray area. All of the mods I have seen for region coding also disable the silly macrovision encoding, which is at least on the illegal side of the gray area. Most of the imported DVD's from Japan that i've seen have language printed on them to the effect that they are only licensed for use in Japan, and they warn of dire consequenses if that is violated. (Download MAME and one of the Japaneese ROM sets and you'll see the blurb that I'm talking about)
On July 1, 2001, DIVX will be a dead format. Perhaps the only dead format, but it will be dead dead dead dead dead.
Oh, and one more thing, I'll be enjoying my LD collection long after June 30, 2001.
In terms of being a consumer friendly product, LD is to DVD what DVD is to DIVX.
DVD has the region coding, which means that I can't buy Japaneese imported DVD's and play them without brakin' the law, and they also have the macro encoding, which even if you don't want to make illegal copies is inconvienient if you don't have enough inputs on your TV, and need to use the ones on your VCR.
I can also get LD's really cheap now because all the fools are replacing their whole collections with DVD's. There are also many many titles which are on LD but will never see the light of DVD, at least not any time soon.