If you want to control intellectual property, you need to be able to control the information exchanged between people. That is a very difficult thing to do, and may give you a totalitarian society as a side effect.
I've got some small programs that I've wrote. I'm never releasing them to public, for free or for profit. And that's the ONLY way you can ever make sure nobody does whatever they like to them.
I warmly welcome automation. (And no, not as an overlord)
Automation can only remove the repetitive and boring tasks, never replace creativity*. Automation can never do anything but remove tasks we didn't want in the first place. Automation is nothing but a process of honing our jobs into ever more creative work.
Then, the tech industry will be artists.
* Well, maybe, and then we risk replacing humanity which is another story.;)
It's been evident for a long time that it can't be stopped. Indeed.
Intellectual property = information.
It does not matter how much anyone would like it to be a physical property, be it you or me or the RIAA / MPAA. If it can be represented in a digital form, it is information.
The purpose of a computer is to copy and transform information. The purpose of the Internet is to copy and transform information on a global scale.
Like it or not, the biggest change in civilization the last 20 years have been about moving digital information. Computers does not differ between types of information, they just move (copy) a huge number of ones and zeros from one place to another. The Internet is basically a colossal copyright infringement machine.
I worry a lot about "Intellectual Property". I can understand their worried and justified claims on the content industry, but no matter how you twist and turn this it boils down to "controlling information".
There is no difference between different kinds of information. If intellectual property could be controlled, all information could be controlled. This includes any information any government would declare "illegal".
If anyone could control who copies a Hollywood blockbuster, they could also control who copies other information that makes the government look bad. Like a video of police brutality or any violation of human rights.
You'll not find any police departments even remotely considering having their officers carry tasers instead of guns because that would be ridiculously unsafe for them. The Norwegian police force is unarmed.
They can obtain weapons in special cases, but an officer on normal duty will not carry a firearm.
I for one would never take such a job. It seems boring, dangerous, and underpaid. Zapping people with tasers doesn't hold enough of an attraction for me to make it worth my time. As with other jobs, the people applying to be police officers do so because they think the benefits to outweigh the drawbacks.
Vampire: The Masquerade had a fitting quote on this, but I could not find the exact wording.
And as the parents says, this is indeed not a problem with the police officers, it is a problem with the system and selection of people that become police officers.
Personally, I think the things like HDs, network gear, and such are correct. We need to use the metric prefixes for base 10 for base 10. If we want to talk base 2, use the base-2 prefixes. Burn these foul aberrations begotten by the kilobyte! This, my dear IT fellows, is the path of evil and only horrors lurk ahead.
Computers function in the realm of magic. Behold! 500MB plus 500MB! The sum not a full, but strangely a 0.97 of a gigabyte. The remaining 3 percent gone, - a sacrifice to evil!
Don't even get me started with base 2. The byte itself is not even a 1, but itself an 8. Thus, the kilobyte is really 2^13 bits, and a megabyte is 2^23. The whole system is ludicrous. This happened because a useful technical shortcut have been kept alive for too long, and made its way into the real of the end-user.
Stop this madness and see the light of the network engineers. Behold! The wonder of the Mbps. 1Mbps is a wonderful, intuitive 1,000,000 full bits per second. This is stuff I can explain my mother - and she'll understand.
Thought for today: does the infrastructure required to deliver e-mail spam and Internet ads use more energy than the paper-based direct mail industry?
More energy than chopping down trees to chemically process them to write characters on, then transport them in a car to their destination?
I think that both laws are ridiculous personally. If it's not illegal to do, then it shouldn't be illegal to represent digitally with a bunch of 1s and 0s. Exactly.
I can't see the difference between this and banning "violent" movies of any type. That includes pretty much anything coming out of Hollywood with 16+ years age limit.
A movie simulating a murder is a movie simulating a murder. Whether or not the story is acted out by actors with or without clothes shouldn't really matter.
As someone said last time this topic was up. White-hats deploying "friendly" botnets will never see any benefit, but potentially be sued into oblivion. In the end, you're infiltrating someone elses computer, that is illegal even if you do it for a good cause.
The people deploying "evil" botnets do so for profit. And they earn enough to cover the risks.
In short, we're not going to see many friendly botnets.
Functionally similar features have often evolved more that once (wings in birds, insects, bats all evolved seperately). To clarify: Functionally similar features are fine.
With a pegasus, I meant the classical description: a horse with bird wings. It's the bird genes that exist in the different evolutionary path and would. Horses evolving their own mechanics and improving their own horse genes is perfectly fine.
Remember, one of the tenets of faith (not intelligent design... a very different concept) is that it cannot be proven except to each individual in a personal way. Thus, although I may have proof of it myself, I have no ability to share that proof. Does that make it invalid? Absolutely!...if you're trying to introduce your faith as "science", that is. Your personal faith and theories in life you may choose however you like.
To go along with this, show me how and where "evolution" has been proven. It cannot be either. It can, however, be disproved. (Genes are transferred in a specific way, find any animals with genes that does not math this and evolution have some explaining to do)
It also provides predictions. Given a change in environment, mutations may introduce new features. For bacteria and fruit flies, these experiments does not require millions of years.
Why do people automatically assume Evolution is true just because they don't understand what other theories actually mean? Evolution can be falsified. Something like a pegasus would be completely impossible under the current theory of evolution. Separate species don't converge, birds and horses cannot breed and horses cannot have genes for a feature evolved further down a different evolutionary path.
Intelligent Design cannot be falsified, therefore it is not science. ID can explain Pegasuses, dragons unicorns and cyclopses just fine. That makes it useless, since that also means it cannot predict anything. Without predictions, you cannot have new scientific insight.
But if you're a terrorist, hire an escort agency and enter the screening with a handful of nicely curved girls. You know where any board male security guards will be looking...
I hope you're right. I love the "2d look" and I don't want to see it go away because it's cheaper to use 3d. Unfortunately, there are nearly photo-realistic 3d animations, and no 3d animation that look like classic (hand-drawn) animation. That tells us that the problem is far from being trivial. I think the issue is more related to choice of style and that many believes photorealism and not ultra-stylized 3D is the way to go. There are exceptions, however. Ookami (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Ckami) is a game using the 3D engine to render into a style inspired of watercolor/woodcarving artwork.
As "everything" looks photorealistic, I expect more and more esperimenting with other render styles, classic or something completely new.
The real power of putting computers to work, however, is when you put physics engines to work. Then you can calculate accurate interactions between mass and forces, deformations and particle effects. (Smoke is extremely difficult to animate by hand)
Good to see you modded up, sad to see that the replies attempt to argue the points instead of using them as a source for information about the general opinion.
What strikes me the most is all the "we" and "you" in the poem. The world isn't divided in two.
Next I notice all the thinking about the past. Only learn from the past, make plans for the future.
The only reason Europe prospers today is because we learned to live with the mistakes done in the past. Our grandparents were killing eachother. Mistakes happen.
Happily, when they can actually release a dub with quality voice actors - as in, sometime around never. Coming from a country that generally doesn't dub anything we import, I'm dumbfounded.
Keep the original voices and use subtitles. Your point about differences in language are right on - sometimes a one-word utterance in Japanese require a long English phrase to come across correctly, and sometimes it is the opposite. Not to mention that the original actors are chosen by the director because their voices match the overall vision for the movie. You can't just replace that.
I'm not an English speaker, but with years of practice the I read subtitles pretty much instatly, then follow the dialoge while comparing it with the translation.
Heck, subtitles on anime would do nothing but learning kids to read and spell correctly;)
I can see Appleseed being the forefather of the next generation of anime. The 3D work in Appleseed was handled brilliantly. Anime is stylized cartoons. 2D.
And yeah, we are certainly going to have a form of stylized 3D. The scifi-subset of anime sounds like a very obvious candidate for pioneering work in the field.
Hand-drawing every single frame of a movie just doesn't make sense these days. Computers can draw much better for the same price, and a director can do things like change his mind about a scene and redraw it. Humans are slightly less happy to see their hard labor being scrapped. And the particle effects and physics are plain evil difficult to draw. That's a bunch of reasons off the top of my head.
Yes, I know there is a lot more to anime than "stylized 2D". But with computers doing the 3D drudge work the designers can focus on getting all the storyline, atmosphere and artistic details just right.
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Intellectual Property = information.
If you want to control intellectual property, you need to be able to control the information exchanged between people. That is a very difficult thing to do, and may give you a totalitarian society as a side effect.
If it weren't for latency, Iceland would be the killer place to host datacenters.
Pretty cold all year round. And for further power needs, just hook into some hydroelectric or geothermal niftiness.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_power_in_Iceland
You're basically supporting his post...
I warmly welcome automation. (And no, not as an overlord)
;)
Automation can only remove the repetitive and boring tasks, never replace creativity*. Automation can never do anything but remove tasks we didn't want in the first place. Automation is nothing but a process of honing our jobs into ever more creative work.
Then, the tech industry will be artists.
* Well, maybe, and then we risk replacing humanity which is another story.
Intellectual property = information.
It does not matter how much anyone would like it to be a physical property, be it you or me or the RIAA / MPAA. If it can be represented in a digital form, it is information.
The purpose of a computer is to copy and transform information.
The purpose of the Internet is to copy and transform information on a global scale.
Like it or not, the biggest change in civilization the last 20 years have been about moving digital information. Computers does not differ between types of information, they just move (copy) a huge number of ones and zeros from one place to another. The Internet is basically a colossal copyright infringement machine.
I worry a lot about "Intellectual Property". I can understand their worried and justified claims on the content industry, but no matter how you twist and turn this it boils down to "controlling information".
There is no difference between different kinds of information. If intellectual property could be controlled, all information could be controlled. This includes any information any government would declare "illegal".
If anyone could control who copies a Hollywood blockbuster, they could also control who copies other information that makes the government look bad. Like a video of police brutality or any violation of human rights.
Controlling information
They can obtain weapons in special cases, but an officer on normal duty will not carry a firearm.
Vampire: The Masquerade had a fitting quote on this, but I could not find the exact wording.
And as the parents says, this is indeed not a problem with the police officers, it is a problem with the system and selection of people that become police officers.
Reference:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olm7xC-gBMY
Surely, there must be a connection here. FPS games are merely training tools for violent copyright infringement terrorist.
Computers function in the realm of magic. Behold! 500MB plus 500MB! The sum not a full, but strangely a 0.97 of a gigabyte. The remaining 3 percent gone, - a sacrifice to evil!
Don't even get me started with base 2. The byte itself is not even a 1, but itself an 8. Thus, the kilobyte is really 2^13 bits, and a megabyte is 2^23. The whole system is ludicrous. This happened because a useful technical shortcut have been kept alive for too long, and made its way into the real of the end-user.
Stop this madness and see the light of the network engineers. Behold! The wonder of the Mbps. 1Mbps is a wonderful, intuitive 1,000,000 full bits per second. This is stuff I can explain my mother - and she'll understand.
I can't see the difference between this and banning "violent" movies of any type. That includes pretty much anything coming out of Hollywood with 16+ years age limit.
A movie simulating a murder is a movie simulating a murder. Whether or not the story is acted out by actors with or without clothes shouldn't really matter.
As someone said last time this topic was up. White-hats deploying "friendly" botnets will never see any benefit, but potentially be sued into oblivion. In the end, you're infiltrating someone elses computer, that is illegal even if you do it for a good cause.
The people deploying "evil" botnets do so for profit. And they earn enough to cover the risks.
In short, we're not going to see many friendly botnets.
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:PKBGTUMADMQD7FXO7PLIZPGWQBLPRTEE BitTorrent is so robust, it's a tank, it's a bunker, it's a mountain range.
That's small enough to write down on a piece of paper and post at the local store.
Hmm... Maybe I should do just that!
With a pegasus, I meant the classical description: a horse with bird wings. It's the bird genes that exist in the different evolutionary path and would. Horses evolving their own mechanics and improving their own horse genes is perfectly fine.
It also provides predictions. Given a change in environment, mutations may introduce new features. For bacteria and fruit flies, these experiments does not require millions of years.
Intelligent Design cannot be falsified, therefore it is not science. ID can explain Pegasuses, dragons unicorns and cyclopses just fine. That makes it useless, since that also means it cannot predict anything. Without predictions, you cannot have new scientific insight.
But if you're a terrorist, hire an escort agency and enter the screening with a handful of nicely curved girls. You know where any board male security guards will be looking...
As "everything" looks photorealistic, I expect more and more esperimenting with other render styles, classic or something completely new.
The real power of putting computers to work, however, is when you put physics engines to work. Then you can calculate accurate interactions between mass and forces, deformations and particle effects. (Smoke is extremely difficult to animate by hand)
Good to see you modded up, sad to see that the replies attempt to argue the points instead of using them as a source for information about the general opinion.
What strikes me the most is all the "we" and "you" in the poem. The world isn't divided in two.
Next I notice all the thinking about the past. Only learn from the past, make plans for the future.
The only reason Europe prospers today is because we learned to live with the mistakes done in the past. Our grandparents were killing eachother. Mistakes happen.
Keep the original voices and use subtitles. Your point about differences in language are right on - sometimes a one-word utterance in Japanese require a long English phrase to come across correctly, and sometimes it is the opposite. Not to mention that the original actors are chosen by the director because their voices match the overall vision for the movie. You can't just replace that.
I'm not an English speaker, but with years of practice the I read subtitles pretty much instatly, then follow the dialoge while comparing it with the translation.
Heck, subtitles on anime would do nothing but learning kids to read and spell correctly
And yeah, we are certainly going to have a form of stylized 3D. The scifi-subset of anime sounds like a very obvious candidate for pioneering work in the field.
Hand-drawing every single frame of a movie just doesn't make sense these days. Computers can draw much better for the same price, and a director can do things like change his mind about a scene and redraw it. Humans are slightly less happy to see their hard labor being scrapped. And the particle effects and physics are plain evil difficult to draw. That's a bunch of reasons off the top of my head.
Yes, I know there is a lot more to anime than "stylized 2D". But with computers doing the 3D drudge work the designers can focus on getting all the storyline, atmosphere and artistic details just right.