Fundamentally, it is not my responsibility to make sure that materials I download are legal copyright-wise. If I go to what seems to be the "They Might Be Giants" website and download MP3s that are there, or grab bootlegs the owner says are legal, am I violating copyright if the files weren't legal for distribution? That shouldn't be the case, any more than I should be liable if I buy a copy of the New York Times that has a plagiarized story.
If you get them from your CDs why would you need a redundant piece of equipment in your stereo rack?
So I don't have to get up and change disks. I can also put my CD collection in storage, so it works out to being much more compact in my living room even with the player size taken into account. I can also get more than one of these, so my collection is in every room.
Also, I'd like an MP3 player (with internal storage) so I don't have to take my >$1000 CD collection to my office, I can just take the device.
The attitudes of many people here suggest that art will not pay the bills in the future.
Many people have pirated stuff before, many will again. The same technologies that making unlawful copies easier to distribute should also allow making legal copies easier to produce and distribute. While they may not become millionaires, people are already making decent wages distributing their music via mp3.com, even if they're also giving it away for free.
Really, the worst thing the content producers can do is to keep inconveniencing their legitimate customers. The more roadblocks these guys put in our way, the more customers like myself will try to make sure we have the technology to work around it.
Hmm. It it's so bad that stuff like stoves can go crazy, what happens to people with bionic ears and pacemakers?
My wife has a cochlear implant. So far the only electromagnetic interference with the device we know of is the anti-theft scanners at the doors of stores, which create an annoying but tolerable buzzing for her.
Presumably it will do some sort of packet-writing, where it only writes part of the CD-R at a time. That would be substantially faster.
Also, if the camera has a memory buffer, it could buffer the pictures in the short run, and write them more slowly. The Olympus C-3030 differs from its C-3000 cousin in that it has such a buffer, and thus can take multiple shots per second for a few seconds, and can take longer video clips.
In the long run, a wireless solution will probably replace USB et al.
Neo-Luddite? Please. I bought my Mavica because of one overwhelming reason: floppies are highest common denomi[na]tor of computer storage media.
...unless you have an iMac or an iBook, or an iOpener (I think). And many people cart around laptops with removable floppy drives they've left behind.
Almost no computers are being sold nowadays without USB, although I'll grant you OS support for it (and specific reader devices) is nowhere near the universality of PC-format floppy reading.
I drove to New York and the background check people sent someone to the courthouse to get a copy of the warrant which was for someone with the same name but a different birthdate.
Just think, people who name their kid Shamiqua, Davion, Jamari, and other non-traditional names are doing their kid a favor. No worries about misidentification there!
If you take a quick look at the article, they said iBook, not iMac.
If you take a longer look at the article, you'll see it was updated after my posting and before yours; I think they fixed the iMac/iBook error. It was a trivial error by the Microsoft folks, repeated in the message I responded to. No biggie, I was just trying to keep the misinformation level down...
I was able to hear the 15.75Khz horizontial sweep frequency of TVs in my youth, rock & roll and age has cured me of that annoying little problem, but walking by the TV section of the store used to be painful.
I drove Best Buy nuts by buying and returning TVs because of the volume of their squeal, until I finally found an acceptable one.
Probably about one tenth of one percent of music on mp3.com is bearable for more than a few seconds.
Speaking of which, I *think* I got a song called "I Wanna Watch the X-Files In The Rain" off of mp3.com, but now I can't find it there or on allmusic.com's listings. Anyone know anything about that song?
Sorry to be off-topic, but I can't think of where else to ask.
On a more serious note, given that this display is static, would head tracking work?
I think the answer is yes, given that you do have a little freedom of movement. For objects that are "close" to you in the 3-D view, it would probably be a nice effect. Unfortunately, adding headtracking would probably encourage the user to move their head out of the narrow viewing area, thus breaking the effect.
Perhaps, but for those who can make good, productive use of it, the technology is available sooner and less expensively than it would be, and that's a Good Thing. The users of our CAD program have certainly benefited from the march of 3-D technology.
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The issue is (apart from the fact that its already encoded into a compressed format, why waste quality re-encoding it) that it doesn't even have to be re-burned onto a dvd if you have a proper operating system.
So instead, you store a $20 DVD on $50 worth of hard drive space. Ya still gotta put it somewhere... Now admittedly, college kids with high-speed lines can essentially use multiple machines as a distributed file system, but for the rest of us that's not really practical.
But this is the most fundamental truth: even if DeCSS is shut down, people will still pirate just as much. Given how much trade there is in pirated tapes made by smuggling a video camera into the movies, perfect copies just aren't an issue here. If DeCSS goes away, people will just make copies of the analog outputs.
>P.S. - I wonder if thats why no unix players were made in the first place?
People who write free software aren't real keen on paying licensing fees, and other Unices aren't really big in the home market. So UDF support existed only in Windows, so DeCSS was written for that.
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DeCSS is useful for ripping DVDs so they can be encoded in MPEG-(pick a number) format, and then distributed through your local warez d00d.
But if you're going to convert it to MPEG-1 (even with cable modems, MPEG-2 is just too big for practical internet distribution), one could simply do that with the analog video output and get about the same quality of output. And there's no practical format on which to copy digital DVD data that doesn't cost as least as much as the DVD or is hopelessly impractical (6 CD-Rs.) 99% of people would prefer lower quality and more practical use.
If DeCSS is banned, copiers will simply copy to VHS, or convert the analog output into MPEG-1 for internet distribution. It will have no practical effect.
The cool point here is "without glasses". As long as you need to hang something on your head, appeal will be limited.
Hmm, a lot of us already view a computer with glasses. The key is they need to be as light as possible, wireless, shouldn't affect your view of the real world for the most part, and you shouldn't need to take them off when you get up from the computer.
Personally I find those magic eye pictures to be very disorienting and I have very little sucess with them.
Generally, people have problems with them due to the unnatural eye position needed to view them, you have to be very cross-eyed. This sort of display doesn't require the unnatural eye position.
What is potentially problematic with this sort of display, however, is how precisely you need to have your head position. To view 3-D for long periods, it needs to be *perfect* -- no times when the frames aren't quite in sync (left and and right eye not seeing a frame rendered with the same geometry), that sort of thing. An alternative technology is LCD shutter glasses, although the problem with them is that you effectively halve your screen refresh rate, and you have exactly the same potential problem with out of sync images.
No, they both were from the late Cretaceous. Their habitats seem to be somewhat different, however, and thus they may not have interacted. Fossil records are far from complete, however. T-rex apparently lasted up to the great dinosaur extinction at the end of the Cretaceous.
"Jurassic Park" had mostly Cretaceous-period dinosaurs, and thus was mis-named.
Contrary to popular belief (like anything else that's true), the Tyrannosaurus Rex was not the mighty hunter he is portrayed as.
More likely, he was a thief.
Sure, prey may run fast and need speed -- when it's alive. However, once those teeny velociraptors kill off their prey, it's lying on the ground motionless. And if it's a good-sized kill, they aren't going to be moving that body. So instead of catching the prey itself, the T-rex just moves in on the dead body, and the velociraptors scatter.
Lions are pretty similar, despite their reputation. Typically we think of the hyenas trying to steal bits from the lion's kill, but really it's generally the reverse. The hyenas make the kill, then the lions move in and take most of it from them. It's the protection racket of the Serengeti, with manes instead of spats.
Perhaps, but it's bunk. If you read about chimpanzees, you'll find that they have amazing strength compared to humans (somewhere around 7 times as strong), despite being smaller than average adult male humans. Using humanity -- even a powerlifter -- as the basis for judging what muscle can do is pretty silly.
A better basis for the limit on muscle strength would be the strength of a crocodile jaw, particularly given that crocs have changed little since the end of the Cretaceous (65 million years ago). Crocs can exert up to 3000 psi of pressure with their jaws. Not sure how we can translate that to useful stats for measuring potential body size though.
Any event that would cause significant changes in the Earth's gravity would have enormous effects on the surface. Vague evidence of a meteroid impact in the Yucatan area wouldn't be nearly enough. You would expect major disturbances in the Earth's orbit -- probably into an extreme elliptical shape that would create conditions too extreme for life to continue to exist.
This does look pretty cool, but I think the translucent images would drive me nuts over long hours.
In a similar vein, I used to work on a video overlay card/laser disk controller thing, so I had "Raiders of the Lost Ark" often playing in the background color while editing in DOS. Strangely enough, I actually got used to it.
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Fundamentally, it is not my responsibility to make sure that materials I download are legal copyright-wise. If I go to what seems to be the "They Might Be Giants" website and download MP3s that are there, or grab bootlegs the owner says are legal, am I violating copyright if the files weren't legal for distribution? That shouldn't be the case, any more than I should be liable if I buy a copy of the New York Times that has a plagiarized story.
If you get them from your CDs why would you need a redundant piece of equipment in your stereo rack?
So I don't have to get up and change disks. I can also put my CD collection in storage, so it works out to being much more compact in my living room even with the player size taken into account. I can also get more than one of these, so my collection is in every room.
Also, I'd like an MP3 player (with internal storage) so I don't have to take my >$1000 CD collection to my office, I can just take the device.
Hey, but they make great fish & chips.
True, but again that's due to the beer (in the batter)...
Actually, England has some of the best cooks in the world. (They're not English, mind you.)
After being purchased from Amiga earlier this year, former marketing execs Bill McEwen and
Fleecy Moss [...]
Man, they're now buying and selling marketing people now? Hmm, perhaps we could sell a couple of ours...
The attitudes of many people here suggest that art will not pay the bills in the future.
Many people have pirated stuff before, many will again. The same technologies that making unlawful copies easier to distribute should also allow making legal copies easier to produce and distribute. While they may not become millionaires, people are already making decent wages distributing their music via mp3.com, even if they're also giving it away for free.
Really, the worst thing the content producers can do is to keep inconveniencing their legitimate customers. The more roadblocks these guys put in our way, the more customers like myself will try to make sure we have the technology to work around it.
Hmm. It it's so bad that stuff like stoves can go crazy, what happens to people with bionic ears and pacemakers?
My wife has a cochlear implant. So far the only electromagnetic interference with the device we know of is the anti-theft scanners at the doors of stores, which create an annoying but tolerable buzzing for her.
2. how long will it take to create a cd?
Presumably it will do some sort of packet-writing, where it only writes part of the CD-R at a time. That would be substantially faster.
Also, if the camera has a memory buffer, it could buffer the pictures in the short run, and write them more slowly. The Olympus C-3030 differs from its C-3000 cousin in that it has such a buffer, and thus can take multiple shots per second for a few seconds, and can take longer video clips.
In the long run, a wireless solution will probably replace USB et al.
Neo-Luddite? Please. I bought my Mavica because of one overwhelming reason: floppies are highest common denomi[na]tor of computer storage media.
...unless you have an iMac or an iBook, or an iOpener (I think). And many people cart around laptops with removable floppy drives they've left behind.
Almost no computers are being sold nowadays without USB, although I'll grant you OS support for it (and specific reader devices) is nowhere near the universality of PC-format floppy reading.
I drove to New York and the background check people sent someone to the courthouse to get a copy of the warrant which was for someone with the same name but a different birthdate.
Just think, people who name their kid Shamiqua, Davion, Jamari, and other non-traditional names are doing their kid a favor. No worries about misidentification there!
If you take a quick look at the article, they said iBook, not iMac.
If you take a longer look at the article, you'll see it was updated after my posting and before yours; I think they fixed the iMac/iBook error. It was a trivial error by the Microsoft folks, repeated in the message I responded to. No biggie, I was just trying to keep the misinformation level down...
Since when does the iMac have an LCD screen?
Just when and where is all of this money being squandered? Where do I go to see the excess?
MTV, I think.
I was able to hear the 15.75Khz horizontial sweep frequency of TVs in my youth, rock & roll and age has cured me of that annoying little problem, but walking by the TV section of the store used to be painful.
I drove Best Buy nuts by buying and returning TVs because of the volume of their squeal, until I finally found an acceptable one.
Probably about one tenth of one percent of music on mp3.com is bearable for more than a few seconds.
Speaking of which, I *think* I got a song called "I Wanna Watch the X-Files In The Rain" off of mp3.com, but now I can't find it there or on allmusic.com's listings. Anyone know anything about that song?
Sorry to be off-topic, but I can't think of where else to ask.
On a more serious note, given that this display is static, would head tracking work?
I think the answer is yes, given that you do have a little freedom of movement. For objects that are "close" to you in the 3-D view, it would probably be a nice effect. Unfortunately, adding headtracking would probably encourage the user to move their head out of the narrow viewing area, thus breaking the effect.
I'm pretty (though I can't find a link to prove it)
You could probably digitize a picture of yourself and put it on your website, and we could judge for ourselves...
Not that most of them do anything useful with it.
Perhaps, but for those who can make good, productive use of it, the technology is available sooner and less expensively than it would be, and that's a Good Thing. The users of our CAD program have certainly benefited from the march of 3-D technology.
The issue is (apart from the fact that its already encoded into a compressed format, why waste quality re-encoding it) that it doesn't even have to be re-burned onto a dvd if you have a proper operating system.
So instead, you store a $20 DVD on $50 worth of hard drive space. Ya still gotta put it somewhere... Now admittedly, college kids with high-speed lines can essentially use multiple machines as a distributed file system, but for the rest of us that's not really practical.
But this is the most fundamental truth: even if DeCSS is shut down, people will still pirate just as much. Given how much trade there is in pirated tapes made by smuggling a video camera into the movies, perfect copies just aren't an issue here. If DeCSS goes away, people will just make copies of the analog outputs.
>P.S. - I wonder if thats why no unix players were made in the first place?
People who write free software aren't real keen on paying licensing fees, and other Unices aren't really big in the home market. So UDF support existed only in Windows, so DeCSS was written for that.
DeCSS is useful for ripping DVDs so they can be encoded in MPEG-(pick a number) format, and then distributed through your local warez d00d.
But if you're going to convert it to MPEG-1 (even with cable modems, MPEG-2 is just too big for practical internet distribution), one could simply do that with the analog video output and get about the same quality of output. And there's no practical format on which to copy digital DVD data that doesn't cost as least as much as the DVD or is hopelessly impractical (6 CD-Rs.) 99% of people would prefer lower quality and more practical use.
If DeCSS is banned, copiers will simply copy to VHS, or convert the analog output into MPEG-1 for internet distribution. It will have no practical effect.
The cool point here is "without glasses". As long as you need to hang something on your head, appeal will be limited.
Hmm, a lot of us already view a computer with glasses. The key is they need to be as light as possible, wireless, shouldn't affect your view of the real world for the most part, and you shouldn't need to take them off when you get up from the computer.
Personally I find those magic eye pictures to be very disorienting and I have very little sucess with them.
Generally, people have problems with them due to the unnatural eye position needed to view them, you have to be very cross-eyed. This sort of display doesn't require the unnatural eye position.
What is potentially problematic with this sort of display, however, is how precisely you need to have your head position. To view 3-D for long periods, it needs to be *perfect* -- no times when the frames aren't quite in sync (left and and right eye not seeing a frame rendered with the same geometry), that sort of thing. An alternative technology is LCD shutter glasses, although the problem with them is that you effectively halve your screen refresh rate, and you have exactly the same potential problem with out of sync images.
Wasn't T-Rex gone before raptors came to be?
No, they both were from the late Cretaceous. Their habitats seem to be somewhat different, however, and thus they may not have interacted. Fossil records are far from complete, however. T-rex apparently lasted up to the great dinosaur extinction at the end of the Cretaceous.
"Jurassic Park" had mostly Cretaceous-period dinosaurs, and thus was mis-named.
Contrary to popular belief (like anything else that's true), the Tyrannosaurus Rex was not the mighty hunter he is portrayed as.
More likely, he was a thief.
Sure, prey may run fast and need speed -- when it's alive. However, once those teeny velociraptors kill off their prey, it's lying on the ground motionless. And if it's a good-sized kill, they aren't going to be moving that body. So instead of catching the prey itself, the T-rex just moves in on the dead body, and the velociraptors scatter.
Lions are pretty similar, despite their reputation. Typically we think of the hyenas trying to steal bits from the lion's kill, but really it's generally the reverse. The hyenas make the kill, then the lions move in and take most of it from them. It's the protection racket of the Serengeti, with manes instead of spats.
The article is actually quite interesting.
Perhaps, but it's bunk. If you read about chimpanzees, you'll find that they have amazing strength compared to humans (somewhere around 7 times as strong), despite being smaller than average adult male humans. Using humanity -- even a powerlifter -- as the basis for judging what muscle can do is pretty silly.
A better basis for the limit on muscle strength would be the strength of a crocodile jaw, particularly given that crocs have changed little since the end of the Cretaceous (65 million years ago). Crocs can exert up to 3000 psi of pressure with their jaws. Not sure how we can translate that to useful stats for measuring potential body size though.
Any event that would cause significant changes in the Earth's gravity would have enormous effects on the surface. Vague evidence of a meteroid impact in the Yucatan area wouldn't be nearly enough. You would expect major disturbances in the Earth's orbit -- probably into an extreme elliptical shape that would create conditions too extreme for life to continue to exist.
This does look pretty cool, but I think the translucent images would drive me nuts over long hours.
In a similar vein, I used to work on a video overlay card/laser disk controller thing, so I had "Raiders of the Lost Ark" often playing in the background color while editing in DOS. Strangely enough, I actually got used to it.