"I guess somebody should tell Sony about all the devices Sony produces that allow this stealing to occur!"
More importantly, someone should remind Sony that when you have a CD you can play it on probably thousands of different brands of CD players. Is that stealing too in their eyes? Based on the logic they set forth it seems like it would be. Anything for a buck I guess.
It's pretty straightforward why they continue to try coming up with new forms of DRM. It prevents Joe Schmoe from copying his music/movie collection for friends.
The other reason is because eventually, they will figure out a way to do it where it will be so incredibly annoying or difficult to pull off that people wont bother. Obviously we will still have DiAMOND and AXXO rips of movies in that kind of situation, but it eventually will work and it will cut down.
Beyond that, you have to please your investors. You can't let them think you are just giving stuff away to the world for free. They want "security" in knowing that their investment is "protected" by DRM.
If you think about it, Big Music uses DRM in the same way that we all use dead bolts on our doors. Sure there are plenty of people who can and will break into our houses still, but doesn't it make you feel just a little bit safer? Bump Keys are like the DeCSS of tumbler locks.
First of all, I already have an iTV, it's called an XBox 360. Secondly where is Cisco in all of this iPhone stuff? I am very disappointed that the only people who apparently get to play with a wide screen iPod are those who are frivolous enough to spend $600 on a cellphone from a crappy service provider. I am truly disappointed with todays keynote. Stevie... you have let me down.
"if every one of 110 million American households bought just one [CFL], took it home, and screwed it in the place of an ordinary 60-watt bulb, the energy saved would be enough to power a city of 1.5 million people. One bulb swapped out, enough electricity saved to power all the homes in Delaware and Rhode Island. In terms of oil not burned, or greenhouse gases not exhausted into the atmosphere, one bulb is equivalent to taking 1.3 million cars off the roads."
This sounds absolutely incredible, but without timespans on them it really holds no merrit.
...energy saved would be enough to power a city of 1.5 million people." - How long would it power this city... would this calculation include the fact that they converted to these lightbulbs or is this using the current consumption of people with 60 watt or higher light bulbs? Would these people be able to leave their computers running all day? Would this city have no commercial properties? How long would every person have to use these new light bulbs to have this much power?
"One bulb swapped out, enough electricity saved to power all the homes in Delaware and Rhode Island." - Again... how long would this one bulb have to be swapped out for this much power to be saved? How long would it power all the homes in Delaware and Rhode Island?
"In terms of oil not burned, or greenhouse gases not exhausted into the atmosphere, one bulb is equivalent to taking 1.3 million cars off the roads." - Again I ask the question... how long would this bulb be running for it to be equivalent to this many cars? What data was used to gather this 1.3 million car estimate? If everyone was smart enough to be energy efficient and use these light bulbs, would we also be driving electric cars at that point? How many electric cars would this power? For how long? How many miles would these 1.3 million cars be able to drive?
I think I made my point... it does sound like a great technology... but I hate when they use these numbers that have absolutely no meaning without further information. Maybe I just look into things too much...
"Superintendent Stuart Johnson, operations manager at Halesowen police station, said: 'I support the actions of my officers who responded to complaints from the public about "kids destroying" an ornamental cherry tree by stripping every branch from it, in an area where there have been reports of anti-social behaviour."
I understand that one of the definitions of "anti-social behaviour" is essentially vandalising things, but how does this superintendent see a group of 3 kids, playing in a tree as being vandals? The complaint made "by the public" if true is a valid complaint, however I am absolutely baffled that the arresting officers perceived these kids to be vandalising this tree.
The other thing... aren't there laws about arresting children, taking DNA, etc. etc? I am pretty sure there are some very strict rules governing the arresting procedures for juveniles, and I have a good feeling that if these parents got a good lawyer, they could sue and win very easily. I do not support the "sue or be sued" lifestyle that America has become accustom to, but children should have privacy rights and, the DNA samples and what not should not have been allowed without a guardian present.
Personally... I think this Police Department went to far.
I think the problem here is that college kids have finally realized that no longer can you just get a CS degree and start making 60k+ a year right after you graduate and it discourages them to the point that they pursue other things that while they will also not make 60k+ right out of school, they will enjoy it more while they are in school. It is almost irrelevant how talented you are when you get out of college now, because companies are much less willing so it seems to pay young kids high salaries. Someone graduating top of their class as a CS undergrad will still get an entry level programming job when they get out of school sadly. Now that many companies are making it almost mandatory to have an MS in CS(see Google's career pages) it makes it very discouraging to young kids in the US.
Test 3 is actually quite intriguing in that apparently Air Force pilots were actually able to not only sense a difference in light, but could identify a picture of a plane that was only flashed for 1/220th of a second. Now recognizing a picture at 1/220th would imply that recognizing a difference in light would be possible at much shorter intervals. Regardless though, I am certainly not an optometrist with a real answer.... that site should be helpful though.
Personally I don't see the big deal of having 3ms refresh rates. 10 ms is good enough for me, I don't understand why a pixel needs to be able to refresh 333 times per second. I respect the advance in technology, but I would rather see advances in screen resolution.
The thing I truly don't understand is how laptop LCD's can have a screen resolution of 1920x1200 on a 17" screen(such as the Dell Inspiron XPS I am using) yet the biggest resolution on a 17" desktop display that I have seen so far is 1280x1024. Why is that? I would really like someone to explain this to me.
At any rate, 3ms is ridiculous and if the resolution ever improves, I will be making a purchse on one of those puppies for all of my gaming goodness!
I fully believe that Internic should not be an organization essentially run by the United States. The job that Internic does should essentially be turned into a Special Agency of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. There is no doubt that there are many things where a "world government" are good ideas, and this truly is one of them. There is no reason for any one country to be in charge of a worldwide technology. Just my 2 cents anyway.
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"I guess somebody should tell Sony about all the devices Sony produces that allow this stealing to occur!"
More importantly, someone should remind Sony that when you have a CD you can play it on probably thousands of different brands of CD players. Is that stealing too in their eyes? Based on the logic they set forth it seems like it would be. Anything for a buck I guess.
It's pretty straightforward why they continue to try coming up with new forms of DRM. It prevents Joe Schmoe from copying his music/movie collection for friends.
The other reason is because eventually, they will figure out a way to do it where it will be so incredibly annoying or difficult to pull off that people wont bother. Obviously we will still have DiAMOND and AXXO rips of movies in that kind of situation, but it eventually will work and it will cut down.
Beyond that, you have to please your investors. You can't let them think you are just giving stuff away to the world for free. They want "security" in knowing that their investment is "protected" by DRM.
If you think about it, Big Music uses DRM in the same way that we all use dead bolts on our doors. Sure there are plenty of people who can and will break into our houses still, but doesn't it make you feel just a little bit safer? Bump Keys are like the DeCSS of tumbler locks.
First of all, I already have an iTV, it's called an XBox 360. Secondly where is Cisco in all of this iPhone stuff? I am very disappointed that the only people who apparently get to play with a wide screen iPod are those who are frivolous enough to spend $600 on a cellphone from a crappy service provider. I am truly disappointed with todays keynote. Stevie... you have let me down.
"if every one of 110 million American households bought just one [CFL], took it home, and screwed it in the place of an ordinary 60-watt bulb, the energy saved would be enough to power a city of 1.5 million people. One bulb swapped out, enough electricity saved to power all the homes in Delaware and Rhode Island. In terms of oil not burned, or greenhouse gases not exhausted into the atmosphere, one bulb is equivalent to taking 1.3 million cars off the roads."
...energy saved would be enough to power a city of 1.5 million people." - How long would it power this city... would this calculation include the fact that they converted to these lightbulbs or is this using the current consumption of people with 60 watt or higher light bulbs? Would these people be able to leave their computers running all day? Would this city have no commercial properties? How long would every person have to use these new light bulbs to have this much power?
This sounds absolutely incredible, but without timespans on them it really holds no merrit.
"One bulb swapped out, enough electricity saved to power all the homes in Delaware and Rhode Island." - Again... how long would this one bulb have to be swapped out for this much power to be saved? How long would it power all the homes in Delaware and Rhode Island?
"In terms of oil not burned, or greenhouse gases not exhausted into the atmosphere, one bulb is equivalent to taking 1.3 million cars off the roads." - Again I ask the question... how long would this bulb be running for it to be equivalent to this many cars? What data was used to gather this 1.3 million car estimate? If everyone was smart enough to be energy efficient and use these light bulbs, would we also be driving electric cars at that point? How many electric cars would this power? For how long? How many miles would these 1.3 million cars be able to drive?
I think I made my point... it does sound like a great technology... but I hate when they use these numbers that have absolutely no meaning without further information. Maybe I just look into things too much...
"Superintendent Stuart Johnson, operations manager at Halesowen police station, said: 'I support the actions of my officers who responded to complaints from the public about "kids destroying" an ornamental cherry tree by stripping every branch from it, in an area where there have been reports of anti-social behaviour."
I understand that one of the definitions of "anti-social behaviour" is essentially vandalising things, but how does this superintendent see a group of 3 kids, playing in a tree as being vandals? The complaint made "by the public" if true is a valid complaint, however I am absolutely baffled that the arresting officers perceived these kids to be vandalising this tree.
The other thing... aren't there laws about arresting children, taking DNA, etc. etc? I am pretty sure there are some very strict rules governing the arresting procedures for juveniles, and I have a good feeling that if these parents got a good lawyer, they could sue and win very easily. I do not support the "sue or be sued" lifestyle that America has become accustom to, but children should have privacy rights and, the DNA samples and what not should not have been allowed without a guardian present. Personally... I think this Police Department went to far.
I think the problem here is that college kids have finally realized that no longer can you just get a CS degree and start making 60k+ a year right after you graduate and it discourages them to the point that they pursue other things that while they will also not make 60k+ right out of school, they will enjoy it more while they are in school. It is almost irrelevant how talented you are when you get out of college now, because companies are much less willing so it seems to pay young kids high salaries. Someone graduating top of their class as a CS undergrad will still get an entry level programming job when they get out of school sadly. Now that many companies are making it almost mandatory to have an MS in CS(see Google's career pages) it makes it very discouraging to young kids in the US.
Apparently they can...
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Check out Test 2 and Test 3... http://www.100fps.com/how_many_frames_can_humans_
Test 3 is actually quite intriguing in that apparently Air Force pilots were actually able to not only sense a difference in light, but could identify a picture of a plane that was only flashed for 1/220th of a second. Now recognizing a picture at 1/220th would imply that recognizing a difference in light would be possible at much shorter intervals. Regardless though, I am certainly not an optometrist with a real answer.... that site should be helpful though.
Personally I don't see the big deal of having 3ms refresh rates. 10 ms is good enough for me, I don't understand why a pixel needs to be able to refresh 333 times per second. I respect the advance in technology, but I would rather see advances in screen resolution. The thing I truly don't understand is how laptop LCD's can have a screen resolution of 1920x1200 on a 17" screen(such as the Dell Inspiron XPS I am using) yet the biggest resolution on a 17" desktop display that I have seen so far is 1280x1024. Why is that? I would really like someone to explain this to me. At any rate, 3ms is ridiculous and if the resolution ever improves, I will be making a purchse on one of those puppies for all of my gaming goodness!
I fully believe that Internic should not be an organization essentially run by the United States. The job that Internic does should essentially be turned into a Special Agency of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. There is no doubt that there are many things where a "world government" are good ideas, and this truly is one of them. There is no reason for any one country to be in charge of a worldwide technology. Just my 2 cents anyway.
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