Hasn't HDMI already been cracked, so the content can already be extracted from DRMed players?
It isn't about making it un-capturable, it's about it being a rental model and making the studios/networks providing the content happy about supporting it.
Sometimes before I go to sleep I fire up a TV show on Netflix and watch it before drifting off. Sometimes it's more comfortable that way. Everybody has different preferences, it doesn't automatically mean that people want a constant barrage of stuff 24-7.
It doesn't, but it does make them comfortable offering a rental service. Since DRM's biggest problem is that it makes content only useful for a limited amount of time, and Netflix is only about rentals, I don't think we should be waving our pitchforks about it.
Once in a while I see Newegg offers 40gig cards you can put in the Expresscard Slot. I realize that not being the boot drive is part of the equation here, but would there be a noticeable speed-up on the data used on that drive like you'd get with SSD?
I'm talking about spatial tracking for something like moving a camera around a volume. Mechanical tracking isn't anywhere near ideal for this and Intersense trackers are exactly what I'm talking about with the high price tag.
I'm curious about the Ascension trackers. Have you worked with those before?
is what Simul-cam sounds like. However, the technique from the article is a bit different, in that it lets a hand-held device to act as a camera controller within a virtual environment. Nothing particularly new there either. Previously, the tracking device on the user's head performed such a function.
Sorry to be pedantic, but, no, head tracking never performed that. Rotation data is very easy to get, the positional data is *not*. Right now, the ability to plot a tracker in a 10x10x10 3D space requires 10's of thousands of dollars in equipment and installation.
What is the definition of all here? Does it for instance include Europe or anything outside of the US? Before we haven't been able to watch anything on Hulu.
Look, the broadcast of television shows is affected by agreements with other countries, localization of said TV shows into that country, and advertisers that will pay to advertise in that country. So no, it's not ever going to be open to the world. Please file that away in your common-sense-memory-bank.
I worked with a fairly well known illustrator (concept painter) on a movie a few years ago that had an 18" tablet. I didn't even know they went past 12! I asked him why he got one so large and explained to me that his friends injured their wrists by working on fine detail, so he got the extra large tablet so he could use his whole arm to draw. He said it took some getting used to but that his wrists have held up just fine.
The patents are published for all to examine. In fact, one of the risks of patenting something is you're telling the competition the secrets to your magic. If the patent is rejected, you've just laid it all on the table for everyone to see.
If they're rich, it's because it was a very important development and they were rewarded for taking the time and energy to make it useful. If we never see it again either it wasn't really all that important or somebody, in an effort to get around a patent, came up with an even better approach.
How would you like it if your job, country and culture was stereotyped into the guilt-ridden nonsense that The Simpsons aired?
I'm an American. I read about how I'm fat, arrogant, ignorant, overworked, and lazy every day. I don't even get the benefit of any of those stereotypes being that I use an old haggard unicorn to bring me my beer. I'm not very sympathetic on this one.
I'll put it this way: How woould we know the rules are really being followed? Just ponder for a bit what that would actually entail and how co-operative the Chinese gov't would be.
Less profit anyway. That's why they're getting business in the first place.
But we're a big market to just go ignore, and ignoring us means their competitors would be getting our money instead.
And the workers still get shafted anyway. There's less money going around to employ them, and they'll still willing to accept work for that low of pay. That is the problem. It doesn't matter what kind of example we set, people still say "Where do I sign?"
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Isn't this the first time that the Beatles' catalog will be offered online? Legally of course.
Ssshhhh we're busy making fun of Apple here, take your pertinent details somewhere where their insight will be appreciated!
Thank you for putting that more thoughtfully than I would have. Pity I have no mod points.
Hasn't HDMI already been cracked, so the content can already be extracted from DRMed players?
It isn't about making it un-capturable, it's about it being a rental model and making the studios/networks providing the content happy about supporting it.
Sometimes before I go to sleep I fire up a TV show on Netflix and watch it before drifting off. Sometimes it's more comfortable that way. Everybody has different preferences, it doesn't automatically mean that people want a constant barrage of stuff 24-7.
Since when does DRM work to prevent piracy?
It doesn't, but it does make them comfortable offering a rental service. Since DRM's biggest problem is that it makes content only useful for a limited amount of time, and Netflix is only about rentals, I don't think we should be waving our pitchforks about it.
For actual purchases, totally cool. For rentals, like Netflix is doing, DRM-less will never fly.
Did you know that 'obligatory' also means "doesn't stand a chance of being funny?"
I dare the posters on this site to go this entire thread without mentioning Apple.
Once in a while I see Newegg offers 40gig cards you can put in the Expresscard Slot. I realize that not being the boot drive is part of the equation here, but would there be a noticeable speed-up on the data used on that drive like you'd get with SSD?
I'm talking about spatial tracking for something like moving a camera around a volume. Mechanical tracking isn't anywhere near ideal for this and Intersense trackers are exactly what I'm talking about with the high price tag.
I'm curious about the Ascension trackers. Have you worked with those before?
is what Simul-cam sounds like. However, the technique from the article is a bit different, in that it lets a hand-held device to act as a camera controller within a virtual environment. Nothing particularly new there either. Previously, the tracking device on the user's head performed such a function.
Sorry to be pedantic, but, no, head tracking never performed that. Rotation data is very easy to get, the positional data is *not*. Right now, the ability to plot a tracker in a 10x10x10 3D space requires 10's of thousands of dollars in equipment and installation.
What is the definition of all here? Does it for instance include Europe or anything outside of the US? Before we haven't been able to watch anything on Hulu.
Look, the broadcast of television shows is affected by agreements with other countries, localization of said TV shows into that country, and advertisers that will pay to advertise in that country. So no, it's not ever going to be open to the world. Please file that away in your common-sense-memory-bank.
I worked with a fairly well known illustrator (concept painter) on a movie a few years ago that had an 18" tablet. I didn't even know they went past 12! I asked him why he got one so large and explained to me that his friends injured their wrists by working on fine detail, so he got the extra large tablet so he could use his whole arm to draw. He said it took some getting used to but that his wrists have held up just fine.
Is his other hand functional?
Digital art is two-handed. Just orbiting the view in Maya, for example, requires holding down the alt key and left-click-dragging the mouse around.
What's funny is your post does more to agree with my point than disagree.
Dear Internet Explorer,
Please die.
Signed-
The Internet
Dear Internet Explorer,
Thank you for being part of the competition that's keeping browsers from stagnating. We wish you long life.
Signed-
The Sensible People on the Internet Who Didn't Just Spout that 'Competition is Good' in Order to Earn Insightful Mods.
How are they supposed to learn this?
When their interest level is high enough it'll come quick enough.
A clock with a 9v backup worked just fine. Who would have guessed?
It also wakes you up on Saturday and forgets to wake you up on Monday because you turned it off not wanting it to wake you up on Sunday.
Right or wrong overworked isn't in there.
Uh, yes it is. Go look it up. It's extra amusing because people often put that right after 'lazy'.
The patents are published for all to examine. In fact, one of the risks of patenting something is you're telling the competition the secrets to your magic. If the patent is rejected, you've just laid it all on the table for everyone to see.
If they're rich, it's because it was a very important development and they were rewarded for taking the time and energy to make it useful. If we never see it again either it wasn't really all that important or somebody, in an effort to get around a patent, came up with an even better approach.
Any way you slice it, it's good.
I wouldnt pass judgement without knowing how much they spent on developing it.
How would you like it if your job, country and culture was stereotyped into the guilt-ridden nonsense that The Simpsons aired?
I'm an American. I read about how I'm fat, arrogant, ignorant, overworked, and lazy every day. I don't even get the benefit of any of those stereotypes being that I use an old haggard unicorn to bring me my beer. I'm not very sympathetic on this one.
I'll put it this way: How woould we know the rules are really being followed? Just ponder for a bit what that would actually entail and how co-operative the Chinese gov't would be.
Less profit in the short term.
Less profit anyway. That's why they're getting business in the first place.
But we're a big market to just go ignore, and ignoring us means their competitors would be getting our money instead.
And the workers still get shafted anyway. There's less money going around to employ them, and they'll still willing to accept work for that low of pay. That is the problem. It doesn't matter what kind of example we set, people still say "Where do I sign?"