HDMI & HDCP are not meant to prevent piracy and as such contain *no* mechanism which can.
I disagree. They contain just enough mechanism to make somebody who wants to illegally copy have to go out of their way to do so. It's commonly referred to as "keeping the honest people honest" (if they were really honest, why do we need to *keep* them honest? But I digress).
Well, I do agree that the lawsuit tool is important too. But I disagree that the mechanism isn't meant to cut down on copying. It is -- causual copying.
When it comes to people, and their motives, I don't think it [Occam's Razor] cuts the grade.
Occam's Razor applies to all parts of life. In the end, it comes down to probability based on the available evidence. Here's an illustrative story from Chapter 1: Plausible Reasoning, from E.T. Jayne's book:
Suppose some dark night a policeman walks down a street, apparently deserted; but suddenly he
hears a burglar alarm, looks across the street, and sees a jewelry store with a broken window. Then
a gentleman wearing a mask comes crawling out through the broken window, carrying a bag which
turns out to be full of expensive jewelry. The policeman doesn't hesitate at all in deciding that this
gentleman is dishonest. But by what reasoning process does he arrive at this conclusion?
Then how do you differential between beliefs and faith? Is there no difference?
I think dictionary reference #2 is succinct and accurate: "Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence."
Let's take a concrete example. Some Jihadists believe that they will get virgins in the afterlife as a reward for their service. I think you would be hard-pressed to get a rational explanation out of them for this belief. For them, it is a matter of faith. Yet, from an external perspective, it is easy to see that their faith/belief is based on the culture they grew up in. Someone raised in a Christian environment would not share this belief.
I see faith as a self-defense mechanism. It lets people go about their daily lives without questioning their core beliefs.
"He didn't create something new and impressive. He just
tore down something new (and impressive) because he could,
and rather than helping others, he screwed people over.
And you expect me to _respect_ that kind of behaviour?" --Linus Torvalds
He acknowledges that not only was there no obligation for these companies to donate money, but that OpenSSH wasn't created to make money. I don't think it is unreasonable for him to ask for money, particularly when he has pointed out that some of the vendors selected OpenSSH after they were quoted high fees (multi-millions of USD) from the commercial SSH vendor.
It's all in the attitude and presentation to the public. He certainly acts like there is a moral obligation for companies to give him money. It's also not clear where all the money will go to. Checks are to be made to Theo personally. I can't tell, is there a charitable organization behind OpenBSD? If so, then they need to run it like one. If not, then Theo has no right to act like one.
Now compare this to Wikipedia. There's none of this "you owe us" business. There's a very transparent budget and list of contributions. And there's a non-profit organization behind it all.
I like Amazon's service and prices, at least for books. It sucks that they abuse the patent system, but trying to live a principled life where you only purchase from "good" companies is just too damn hard. Even Google, which I really respected for a long time, has fallen in my eyes.
Do you make every purchase with such principles in mind? Clothes? Food? Ever bought an mp3 player? A DVD with copyright protection? A computer with Microsoft Windows installed? Is every single product you buy from a company without bad patents?
So, you think a regulatory framework where I can copy as much as I want but I am charged a small fee for the cost of the materials to do so that is then distrubuted to artists to offset any loss is government interference?
Yes, I do. Instead of charging people directly for stuff, you come up with a horrible, indirect tax, and then the government doles out the money as it sees fit. You don't need blank CDs to download music, and you can use blank media for stuff besides copying songs. With all the online stores to buy songs from, there's no excuse for people using P2P for copyrighted songs. I used to use Napster before Itunes came out. I was happy to pay $1 per song.
I am wondering if it makes any significant difference to run this or other games in PAL/NTSC instead of 720p HD-TV
Good point. I did not notice any slowdown on my standard definition tv.
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I don't think it's a bad game, though $60 is about twice as much as I'm willing to pay for it. It's actually the only game I really had *fun* playing on the 360.
Too early to say for sure, of course, but I'd rather take this guy's word for it than study the papers myself. - Would I invest/bet money on it? Yes, I would.
Now there's a prudent investor. Too lazy to understand the issues, and some guy in an article says after a "generation's worth of doctoral research" it "seems likely" they'll have something useful. Of course, this problem is already decades old...
I'd be very surprised if Sony didn't have the PS3 out in the US in time for Christmas, even if it means rushing the product. Giving Microsoft a year head start is one thing. Giving them *two* Christmas seasons, the second presumably with their supply problem fixed, is too dangerous.
The title leaves you looking for MySql's response to the recent Oracle purchases. Can you find it in the first link? Nope, not a single, concrete action from MySql is mentioned, just lots of speculation/analysis. How about the second link? Nope, just more analysis. How about the *third* link, entitled "more thoughts"? Yes, finally! That should have been the first link given in the article, and really the only link he needed to give, since the first two articles are mentioned in the third.
I agree. I'm surprised so many Slashdot posters ignore the benefits of HTML over PDF. While PDF has its uses, the vast majority of items that people insist on stuffing into PDF would be more usable as HTML. This includes stuff like research papers, tech specs, etc.
You see you got to give Uwe Boll credit for one thing and that is that no-one has done it better. Movies based on games suck.
I saw Resident Evil 2 in the theaters. I thought it was good for what it was: cheesy fun. The acting was good. I liked the cinematics (atmosphere, lighting, etc). Most importantly, I was entertained. I didn't go in expecting a masterpiece.
So I watched the trailer for Dungeon Siege that somebody else kindly posted, and it looked bloody awful. Nothing screams desperation like putting a bunch of has-been actors to prop up your film.
[Osama is a dead CIA agent]
I don't buy all this conspiracy business. It's too complicated to keep such a huge lie together. There will always be conspiracy sites, and people who take them at face value, but Occam's razor and some common sense thinking go a long way.
The terrorist threat is real, and even if Osama is dead the threat is still there. Think about it. The world is full of billions of people. It only takes a few bad apples to make a big mess. That doesn't mean we should throw away all our freedoms because of the threat.
He doesn't like our way of life, with our quasi-democracy and capitalism and relative tolerance of different faiths.
That's just political spin by the US to ignore the real issue. Most of the anger comes from the US support of Isreal and our troops on "Muslim" soil. They don't like our ideals, sure, but they *really* don't like them when we try to spread them to their sphere of influence. I probably wouldn't either, if they were trying to install a Muslim theocracy in the US. That's the direct issue that the US doesn't want to talk about. Instead, we have Bush stating in his previous State of the Union that we are going to democratize the world.
Not that I'm defending terrorism, but I believe the issues should be argued on reality, not political spin.
What makes Newegg a better store than Best Buy? It's an honest question, as I'm not familiar with Newegg. I see that Newegg is online only, which to me is a disadvantage since I like the immediate satisfaction of driving down to a store and picking up my item, even if it means a few more dollars. Also, the thing with online stores is that when I *do* shop online, I generally search for the best price, instead of sticking to a particular store.
The digital images and OCR that Google does are not "copies" of the book. Does a purely digital version that is never published or made available to anyone as a whole count as a "copy"?
Of course they are copies. The medium has changed; the words have not.
Secondly, practically, many of the books scanned are out of print, i.e. can't be purchased.
And now we have come full circle. I have already responded to this in my original reply. Change the law so that abandoned works become public domain. Reduce copyright limits to something sane, like a decade. But don't argue that Google has the right to clearly violate the law just because it has practical benefits.
Like their Google News service, they are not publishing anything that could replace the original work.
Google News is a good example of fair use: The information is already publically available on the web. The analogy does not extend to books, where Google is copying whole books that they did not pay for. Should I be allowed to walk into a library and photocopy a complete book, so that I may then review it later and claim fair use?
If Google paid for the books they are copying, like the library did, then I think scanning and displaying excerpts for searches would be fair use.
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I disagree. They contain just enough mechanism to make somebody who wants to illegally copy have to go out of their way to do so. It's commonly referred to as "keeping the honest people honest" (if they were really honest, why do we need to *keep* them honest? But I digress).
Well, I do agree that the lawsuit tool is important too. But I disagree that the mechanism isn't meant to cut down on copying. It is -- causual copying.
Occam's Razor applies to all parts of life. In the end, it comes down to probability based on the available evidence. Here's an illustrative story from Chapter 1: Plausible Reasoning, from E.T. Jayne's book:
What is wrong with the grammar of the original? As far as I can tell, you changed "right" to "correctly". There's nothing wrong with using "right".
I think dictionary reference #2 is succinct and accurate: "Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence."
Let's take a concrete example. Some Jihadists believe that they will get virgins in the afterlife as a reward for their service. I think you would be hard-pressed to get a rational explanation out of them for this belief. For them, it is a matter of faith. Yet, from an external perspective, it is easy to see that their faith/belief is based on the culture they grew up in. Someone raised in a Christian environment would not share this belief.
I see faith as a self-defense mechanism. It lets people go about their daily lives without questioning their core beliefs.
Would Linus trash one of his open-source peers for, *gasp*, reverse engineering a closed-source protocol?
http://www.realworldtech.com/forums/index.cfm?acti on=detail&PostNum=3322&Thread=2&entryID=49312&room ID=11
It's all in the attitude and presentation to the public. He certainly acts like there is a moral obligation for companies to give him money. It's also not clear where all the money will go to. Checks are to be made to Theo personally. I can't tell, is there a charitable organization behind OpenBSD? If so, then they need to run it like one. If not, then Theo has no right to act like one.
Now compare this to Wikipedia. There's none of this "you owe us" business. There's a very transparent budget and list of contributions. And there's a non-profit organization behind it all.
Do you make every purchase with such principles in mind? Clothes? Food? Ever bought an mp3 player? A DVD with copyright protection? A computer with Microsoft Windows installed? Is every single product you buy from a company without bad patents?
Yes, I do. Instead of charging people directly for stuff, you come up with a horrible, indirect tax, and then the government doles out the money as it sees fit. You don't need blank CDs to download music, and you can use blank media for stuff besides copying songs. With all the online stores to buy songs from, there's no excuse for people using P2P for copyrighted songs. I used to use Napster before Itunes came out. I was happy to pay $1 per song.
Government interference at its worst. Screw you, Canada.
Good point. I did not notice any slowdown on my standard definition tv.
I don't think it's a bad game, though $60 is about twice as much as I'm willing to pay for it. It's actually the only game I really had *fun* playing on the 360.
Now there's a prudent investor. Too lazy to understand the issues, and some guy in an article says after a "generation's worth of doctoral research" it "seems likely" they'll have something useful. Of course, this problem is already decades old...
What do you mean by this? I assume TCA is Transaction Cost Analysis?
Kudos for admitting your mistake.
I'd be very surprised if Sony didn't have the PS3 out in the US in time for Christmas, even if it means rushing the product. Giving Microsoft a year head start is one thing. Giving them *two* Christmas seasons, the second presumably with their supply problem fixed, is too dangerous.
The title leaves you looking for MySql's response to the recent Oracle purchases. Can you find it in the first link? Nope, not a single, concrete action from MySql is mentioned, just lots of speculation/analysis. How about the second link? Nope, just more analysis. How about the *third* link, entitled "more thoughts"? Yes, finally! That should have been the first link given in the article, and really the only link he needed to give, since the first two articles are mentioned in the third.
I agree. I'm surprised so many Slashdot posters ignore the benefits of HTML over PDF. While PDF has its uses, the vast majority of items that people insist on stuffing into PDF would be more usable as HTML. This includes stuff like research papers, tech specs, etc.
I saw Resident Evil 2 in the theaters. I thought it was good for what it was: cheesy fun. The acting was good. I liked the cinematics (atmosphere, lighting, etc). Most importantly, I was entertained. I didn't go in expecting a masterpiece.
So I watched the trailer for Dungeon Siege that somebody else kindly posted, and it looked bloody awful. Nothing screams desperation like putting a bunch of has-been actors to prop up your film.
I don't buy all this conspiracy business. It's too complicated to keep such a huge lie together. There will always be conspiracy sites, and people who take them at face value, but Occam's razor and some common sense thinking go a long way.
The terrorist threat is real, and even if Osama is dead the threat is still there. Think about it. The world is full of billions of people. It only takes a few bad apples to make a big mess. That doesn't mean we should throw away all our freedoms because of the threat.
That's just political spin by the US to ignore the real issue. Most of the anger comes from the US support of Isreal and our troops on "Muslim" soil. They don't like our ideals, sure, but they *really* don't like them when we try to spread them to their sphere of influence. I probably wouldn't either, if they were trying to install a Muslim theocracy in the US. That's the direct issue that the US doesn't want to talk about. Instead, we have Bush stating in his previous State of the Union that we are going to democratize the world.
Not that I'm defending terrorism, but I believe the issues should be argued on reality, not political spin.
Osama's goal is Muslim rule, not a 1984 Orwellian government in the west.
What makes Newegg a better store than Best Buy? It's an honest question, as I'm not familiar with Newegg. I see that Newegg is online only, which to me is a disadvantage since I like the immediate satisfaction of driving down to a store and picking up my item, even if it means a few more dollars. Also, the thing with online stores is that when I *do* shop online, I generally search for the best price, instead of sticking to a particular store.
Of course they are copies. The medium has changed; the words have not.
Secondly, practically, many of the books scanned are out of print, i.e. can't be purchased.
And now we have come full circle. I have already responded to this in my original reply. Change the law so that abandoned works become public domain. Reduce copyright limits to something sane, like a decade. But don't argue that Google has the right to clearly violate the law just because it has practical benefits.
Google News is a good example of fair use: The information is already publically available on the web. The analogy does not extend to books, where Google is copying whole books that they did not pay for. Should I be allowed to walk into a library and photocopy a complete book, so that I may then review it later and claim fair use?
If Google paid for the books they are copying, like the library did, then I think scanning and displaying excerpts for searches would be fair use.