The thin client revolution. I mean, we can debate back and forth how the iPhone will affect iPod sales in 2007 or 2008, but in the long term, these devices are all destined to become one device that by itself does nothing, but through the network does everything. Just as Apple's replacing buttons with screen space with iPhone right now, a future device will start replacing internals with higher-bandwidth networking until terms like "phone" or "player" refer only to that which passes through the little touchscreen/speaker/mic/packet radio device in your hand.
On the other hand, though, maybe I'm just getting too caught up in my own sci-fi writing.
Couldn't these linguistically-heterogenous domain spaces still be universally linked through romanization? I see one possible solution: An intermediary DNS conversion server; i.e. type "[those were supposed to be Japanese kanji].co.jp" and your DNS request is treated the same as "rakuten.co.jp". Beyond the inability to rake in tons of money for new registrations, what might be the disadvantages of such a system?
The same goes for me: I would peg Deus Ex as the present pinnacle of cultural achievement in any history of gaming I might write. Good sign, though: Warren Spector was on this panel!
Furthermore, it should only require the feeding of a good battery of test and control images through the software with various types of manipulations (heck, for statistically reliable numbers it could even be automated) to essentially reverse-engineer Adobe's "authenticity" algorithms by experimentally determining what triggers the "suspect" flag.
Yes, the sooner this finds a VLC implementation, the sooner I might actually send some money the studios' way for some HD titles. Of course, the release would have to happen in a country without a DMCA clone... Where might we find one of those? Does France's (home of VLC) DADVSI prohibit linking to, say, a Hong Kong site hosting a theoretical VLC-HD?
It's no different from how Monsanto doesn't want to have hormone-free milk sold next to normal milk: People see there's a distinction and will lean toward either the more natural/less restrictive option.
Everyone in the comments here seems to be referring to the tracking device as a "GPS receiver" as if every TomTom or Garmin secretly reports its locations over a cellular network like OnStar. What kind of radios do the ones placed in suspects' cars report their location with: is it via a digital cellular network, is it sidebanded via police radio frequencies, or what?
If they have to comb through your internet traffic to get to the suspect's, so be it. If they come across your e-mail about purchasing some illegal, recreational vegetable matter in the process, they should be obligated to simply pass it by -- the warrant's not for you or anything related to your "hobby"; ergo they can't use your e-mail against you just because your personal communication happened to come between them and the suspect's.
I don't have the case law in front of me here, but...
I've been using that magazine-ad-behemoth known as 1&1 for registrations (and hosting) for awhile. They're cheap and have a non-ugly, reliable CP, but does anyone know of a reason (apart from their mainstream-ness) to avoid them? I haven't come up with anything in the time I've been using them.
I've gone to do domain checks at GoDaddy for a domain I might want to use, decide to mull it over, and come back the next week to buy it only to find that some company got it and parked an ad site there. I have no idea how they know that I checked on it, but they somehow get it on a list and snap it up.
I've had that happen to me too. Foil headgear aside, I've made a habit of using WHOIS to see if something's registered rather than using an availability search unless I'm ready to register when I think of the name.
Ever read that one article by SquiggleSlash?
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This was a real eye-opener to me (though the guy never actually submitted it):
The thing I realised over the last few days was that the Amiga was going to die at about the same time as all the companies that killed it killed it. That may seem a weird thing to say, but my fundamental point is that the two things that made the Amiga - the operating system and the hardware - became "obsolete" in the late nineties. I don't mean the last version of each wasn't fast enough, or, say, AmigaOS's lack of a native TCP/IP stack meant it wasn't feature complete, I'm talking about the fundamental designs themselves. And I think this was a major reason why every Amiga owner after Escom failed.
You must be thinking of Media Player--all those discs you ripped are in the non-DRMed version of AAC. Furthermore, why would switching to an MP3-based store preclude use of iTunes? You can just import (even through automation) your MP3 purchases into iTunes.
It's not like it can't play non-DRMed files or something. Which I hear will be a feature of WMP12.
I'm an interaction designer and would love to contribute to the UI design of a couple of OSS apps. The problem is, most of these projects seem to have this notion that graphic design is *pretty-looking pixmaps* when, of course, that's pretty much the last thing a competent designer would care about when designing an interface. Devs seem to think that interaction design is purely a dev job, when collaboration and communication are what's really needed.
The notion that Apple actually produced first-party, in-house, fake iPhones is a sublimely fascinating concept to me. Might any of these "official fakes" have been the ones we saw making rounds on the blogs in the past six months?
SL will always be, on its face, an old-school VR environment. It was never intended to be a seamless, cinematic experience--the way in which each part of the world loads progressively is as much a function of its legacy-chic "cyberspace" experience as it is of necessity. Perhaps when a competitor offers a more solid, "WoW-like" user-created world, we'll see if SL feels the need to keep pace.
...Akamai has basically obviated the need for a tiered internet all along, right? A third party offers caching for increased (distributed) bandwidth for the "massive commercial communications" going through the tubes. All without changing the neutrality of the network.
The article tends to be hazy on where the actual encryption takes place. At one point, it sounds as if it would be a hardware-independent solution (I mean, encrypted or not, it's still just a filesystem, right?) but then they go on to make it sound like it requires specific firmware abilities.
Either way, if the CSS is as easy to break as the that of existing DVDs... Sign me up.
It seems to me most people are seeing this as a means to:
A) Place-shift HD-DVD content (despite current storage constraints)
B) Pirate HD-DVD content (despite current bandwidth constraints)
when I see the much more immediately relevant issue being that of HDCP: If this crack can be rolled into something on the order of a VLC plugin, there's a chance I'll actually be able to use my technically-more-than-capable, yet not-a-member-of-the-HDCP-club LCD display to view commercial 720p content.
As far as I'm concerned, MacOS doesn't really support two monitors. Why? Because the menu bar appears on only one monitor.
If I'm working on an application on the "secondary" monitor, I have to return my mouse to the other screen to use the menu, and depending on the app, I may use the menu very frequently -- logging some very annoying and completely unnecessary mouse mileage. So I just work on the main screen, making the second monitor effectively useless. It's a sad thing when your UI makes virtual desktops preferable to multiple monitors.
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The thin client revolution. I mean, we can debate back and forth how the iPhone will affect iPod sales in 2007 or 2008, but in the long term, these devices are all destined to become one device that by itself does nothing, but through the network does everything. Just as Apple's replacing buttons with screen space with iPhone right now, a future device will start replacing internals with higher-bandwidth networking until terms like "phone" or "player" refer only to that which passes through the little touchscreen/speaker/mic/packet radio device in your hand.
On the other hand, though, maybe I'm just getting too caught up in my own sci-fi writing.
Hey, looks like her site got Slashdotted. Time for her to sue CmdrTaco?
You've just been spending too much time at Digg, that's all.
Couldn't these linguistically-heterogenous domain spaces still be universally linked through romanization? I see one possible solution: An intermediary DNS conversion server; i.e. type "[those were supposed to be Japanese kanji].co.jp" and your DNS request is treated the same as "rakuten.co.jp". Beyond the inability to rake in tons of money for new registrations, what might be the disadvantages of such a system?
The same goes for me: I would peg Deus Ex as the present pinnacle of cultural achievement in any history of gaming I might write. Good sign, though: Warren Spector was on this panel!
Furthermore, it should only require the feeding of a good battery of test and control images through the software with various types of manipulations (heck, for statistically reliable numbers it could even be automated) to essentially reverse-engineer Adobe's "authenticity" algorithms by experimentally determining what triggers the "suspect" flag.
I give it a few weeks at most, really.
Fifteen meters per second, eh? Grandma's driving did become a bit more reckless in her old age...
Yes, the sooner this finds a VLC implementation, the sooner I might actually send some money the studios' way for some HD titles. Of course, the release would have to happen in a country without a DMCA clone... Where might we find one of those? Does France's (home of VLC) DADVSI prohibit linking to, say, a Hong Kong site hosting a theoretical VLC-HD?
Really, a wrecked raid can be fixed pretty easily if you have enough warlocks to get everyone a soulstone.
It's no different from how Monsanto doesn't want to have hormone-free milk sold next to normal milk: People see there's a distinction and will lean toward either the more natural/less restrictive option.
Probably too long for /., but I'll find a home for it.
Everyone in the comments here seems to be referring to the tracking device as a "GPS receiver" as if every TomTom or Garmin secretly reports its locations over a cellular network like OnStar. What kind of radios do the ones placed in suspects' cars report their location with: is it via a digital cellular network, is it sidebanded via police radio frequencies, or what?
If they have to comb through your internet traffic to get to the suspect's, so be it. If they come across your e-mail about purchasing some illegal, recreational vegetable matter in the process, they should be obligated to simply pass it by -- the warrant's not for you or anything related to your "hobby"; ergo they can't use your e-mail against you just because your personal communication happened to come between them and the suspect's.
I don't have the case law in front of me here, but...
I've been using that magazine-ad-behemoth known as 1&1 for registrations (and hosting) for awhile. They're cheap and have a non-ugly, reliable CP, but does anyone know of a reason (apart from their mainstream-ness) to avoid them? I haven't come up with anything in the time I've been using them.
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You must be thinking of Media Player--all those discs you ripped are in the non-DRMed version of AAC. Furthermore, why would switching to an MP3-based store preclude use of iTunes? You can just import (even through automation) your MP3 purchases into iTunes.
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It's not like it can't play non-DRMed files or something. Which I hear will be a feature of WMP12.
Just kidding. I think.
I'm an interaction designer and would love to contribute to the UI design of a couple of OSS apps. The problem is, most of these projects seem to have this notion that graphic design is *pretty-looking pixmaps* when, of course, that's pretty much the last thing a competent designer would care about when designing an interface. Devs seem to think that interaction design is purely a dev job, when collaboration and communication are what's really needed.
Doesn't run third party apps. Lame.
The notion that Apple actually produced first-party, in-house, fake iPhones is a sublimely fascinating concept to me. Might any of these "official fakes" have been the ones we saw making rounds on the blogs in the past six months?
SL will always be, on its face, an old-school VR environment. It was never intended to be a seamless, cinematic experience--the way in which each part of the world loads progressively is as much a function of its legacy-chic "cyberspace" experience as it is of necessity. Perhaps when a competitor offers a more solid, "WoW-like" user-created world, we'll see if SL feels the need to keep pace.
...Akamai has basically obviated the need for a tiered internet all along, right? A third party offers caching for increased (distributed) bandwidth for the "massive commercial communications" going through the tubes. All without changing the neutrality of the network.
The article tends to be hazy on where the actual encryption takes place. At one point, it sounds as if it would be a hardware-independent solution (I mean, encrypted or not, it's still just a filesystem, right?) but then they go on to make it sound like it requires specific firmware abilities.
Either way, if the CSS is as easy to break as the that of existing DVDs... Sign me up.
It seems to me most people are seeing this as a means to:
A) Place-shift HD-DVD content (despite current storage constraints)
B) Pirate HD-DVD content (despite current bandwidth constraints)
when I see the much more immediately relevant issue being that of HDCP: If this crack can be rolled into something on the order of a VLC plugin, there's a chance I'll actually be able to use my technically-more-than-capable, yet not-a-member-of-the-HDCP-club LCD display to view commercial 720p content.
As far as I'm concerned, MacOS doesn't really support two monitors. Why? Because the menu bar appears on only one monitor.
If I'm working on an application on the "secondary" monitor, I have to return my mouse to the other screen to use the menu, and depending on the app, I may use the menu very frequently -- logging some very annoying and completely unnecessary mouse mileage. So I just work on the main screen, making the second monitor effectively useless. It's a sad thing when your UI makes virtual desktops preferable to multiple monitors.