The linux user base for *any* server hardware is huge, but I still have found new pci network cards that don't work with linux straight away. They were returned, off course. The company doing them must be suicidal.
On the other hand, if we are talking about desktop consumer hardware, that is a very different thing.
If I discuss the DRM implementation with somebody just in order to break it and extract some material from a DRMd disk and use it for a review or critique, it is illegal. At least in the USA. Talk about taking away freedom.
The problem is that DRM on itself doesn't work as a pure technological measure. So far no DRM has been able to stop people from copying stuff they want. The problem is that DRM comes with goverment regulation and goverment enforcement. Basically, what happens is that police comes and takes away your freedom to copy arbitrary stuff and to even discuss DRM implementations with others.
Will current HD-DVD players be able to read three layers disks? If that is not the case, they are adding to the DRM nightmare.
Now you have to check that:
- You are using the right disk with the right recorder BlueRay/HD-DVD - You are using the right variety of disk that you recorder can read (triple layer won't work on old players). - You have everything hooked using HDCP cabling. - All of your hardware supports DRM (if it doesn't your content will be downgraded and you will be worst off than you would with a dvd player).
And off course, the way things are going, in no time your new shiny expensive hardware will be rendered obsolete by a new iteration of the technology and/or the Digital Restrictions Management schema imposed by the studios.
You have to be masochistic to refuse the easy route to High Definition, a DVI connector, P2P and a BFHD (Big F*****g Hard Drive).
This is one of the few (actually, I can't remember any other one) instances where Microsoft has really innovated something. I guess they will have it all covered with patents. If it happens to be an improvement, and if it is not patented, maybe some OSS applications will want to use the idea.
When you have ideas like pure function programming languages, operating in a world without side-effects where explicit locking isn't necessary, or interesting ideas for inter-thread communication such as those in Erlang, another variation on built-in pthreads just isn't worth much.
You got me really interested here. Can you elaborate on this?
When a couple or three keys for _hardware_ players leak the content providers will have to make their minds up and decide if they revoke them.
If they decide to do so, I can tell you that the whole scheme will go down. There will be people with bought and paid hardware made useless. This will be a very good example when explaining to people why DRM is a problem.
Also, if I have learned something in this thread is that if you hack a player, you just have to keep it secret and only release the disk keys for every disk that comes out to the market. If the RIAA doesn't know what player has been hacked, they can't revoke its key. Having one player hacked will invalidate the whole schema as long as the RIAA doesn't know wich one is it.
I am the owner of a High Definition 50 inches TV, with only DVI input. That I see as a good thing. I will not be tempted by the new High Definition *paid* content. There is no way I will be paying another 3000 for a new set just because the content providers refuse to show their content on my perfectly good one. This is also a good way to explain people what DRM is about.
Now we have HAL, DBUS, udev, beagle and xorg composite extension.
If you put all of this things together the desktop experience is much improved. Also, many of this things result in the same sort of functionalities that have appeared in OSX and Vista, but they dont necessary belong to KDE or GNOME.
They are doing this out of desperation. Now that digital downloads are catching up, they have lost their power over the sales channel. They have to talk to apple as equals and cant impose their tiered pricing schemes to them. They have lost control.
The ipod is more and more entrenched in popular culture every day. They are trying to break apples grip on this market with the zune, but its not working.
So if they cant control the DRM used, they don't want anyone else having this kind of control. They know that the one controlling DRM will be the one controlling all of the market.
Now it is quite clear. Microsoft's deal with Novell is an attempt to keep the FUD going after SCO's case implodes. They must have very good legal counseling so they new what was coming.
We happen to have great intellectual property with Halo that could be made into a great movie
Is it just me or M$ is talking more and more about "intellectual property"? If they are moving from a software development company based in copyright to a "intellectual property" company where movie rights and patents are going to be more and more important, then it is no wonder how disastrous Vista's development has been. It is not only bureaucracy and red tape. They are becoming a company run by lawyers and bean counters that needs goverment protection to be able to assert their "intellectual property". With goverment protection comes goverment regulation, so they are becoming entangled in the lobbying game at Washington.
Some people understand religion in one way and some people in another, but most of the religious beliefs are in contradiction with science.
In modern science you not only have evolution, you also have biologically inspired sociology, computational neuroscience and a number of other disciplines that you just cannot understand if you believe in a human soul. The more progress in this areas of study, the more problems you have trying to match this knowledge with religious faith.
Even the soft religious beliefs like "there must be something different about humans" are being challenged. We are just animals, no soul.
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having a speed limit but not enforcing the speed limit
It would be more like enforcing the speed limit by legislating that car wheels have to be squared!!
"Many have tried to "get cute with the GPL" as PJ of Groklaw puts it, but none have succeeded."
Well, the jury is still out on the Microsoft-Novell deal.
Many people here is reporting that, even the first day after install, Vista is slower than XP.
I don't want to know what will it be in 9 months...
If Sun changes Java's license to GPL3, will Novell be able to distribute java?
If the tag sticks, the little brown device is dead on arrival.
The linux user base for *any* server hardware is huge, but I still have found new pci network cards that don't work with linux straight away. They were returned, off course. The company doing them must be suicidal.
On the other hand, if we are talking about desktop consumer hardware, that is a very different thing.
If I discuss the DRM implementation with somebody just in order to break it and extract some material from a DRMd disk and use it for a review or critique, it is illegal. At least in the USA. Talk about taking away freedom.
The problem is that DRM on itself doesn't work as a pure technological measure. So far no DRM has been able to stop people from copying stuff they want. The problem is that DRM comes with goverment regulation and goverment enforcement. Basically, what happens is that police comes and takes away your freedom to copy arbitrary stuff and to even discuss DRM implementations with others.
Will current HD-DVD players be able to read three layers disks? If that is not the case, they are adding to the DRM nightmare.
Now you have to check that:
- You are using the right disk with the right recorder BlueRay/HD-DVD
- You are using the right variety of disk that you recorder can read (triple layer won't work on old players).
- You have everything hooked using HDCP cabling.
- All of your hardware supports DRM (if it doesn't your content will be downgraded and you will be worst off than you would with a dvd player).
And off course, the way things are going, in no time your new shiny expensive hardware will be rendered obsolete by a new iteration of the technology and/or the Digital Restrictions Management schema imposed by the studios.
You have to be masochistic to refuse the easy route to High Definition, a DVI connector, P2P and a BFHD (Big F*****g Hard Drive).
Even after this news about it being a closed system?
Everyone that has written here in slashdot is *not* buying it for one reason or the other.
Is anyone still thinking about getting one? and why?
This is one of the few (actually, I can't remember any other one) instances where Microsoft has really innovated something. I guess they will have it all covered with patents.
If it happens to be an improvement, and if it is not patented, maybe some OSS applications will want to use the idea.
Does anyone know if it is patented?
When you have ideas like pure function programming languages, operating in a world without side-effects where explicit locking isn't necessary, or interesting ideas for inter-thread communication such as those in Erlang, another variation on built-in pthreads just isn't worth much.
You got me really interested here. Can you elaborate on this?
"The universal vaccines focus on a different protein called M2, which has barely changed during the last 100 years."
I bet it will change in the next 5 years...
When a couple or three keys for _hardware_ players leak the content providers will have to make their minds up and decide if they revoke them.
If they decide to do so, I can tell you that the whole scheme will go down. There will be people with bought and paid hardware made useless. This will be a very good example when explaining to people why DRM is a problem.
Also, if I have learned something in this thread is that if you hack a player, you just have to keep it secret and only release the disk keys for every disk that comes out to the market. If the RIAA doesn't know what player has been hacked, they can't revoke its key. Having one player hacked will invalidate the whole schema as long as the RIAA doesn't know wich one is it.
I am the owner of a High Definition 50 inches TV, with only DVI input. That I see as a good thing. I will not be tempted by the new High Definition *paid* content. There is no way I will be paying another 3000 for a new set just because the content providers refuse to show their content on my perfectly good one. This is also a good way to explain people what DRM is about.
That is absolutely right.
Now we have HAL, DBUS, udev, beagle and xorg composite extension.
If you put all of this things together the desktop experience is much improved.
Also, many of this things result in the same sort of functionalities that have appeared in OSX and Vista, but they dont necessary belong to KDE or GNOME.
Do you know of any video player that will be capable of taking advantage of two processors?
As far as I know mplayer doesn't, xine doesn't and vlc doesn't.
The way Linus talks, I think he would be happier with a BSD license than with the GPL.
Which one has your trojan embedded?
The one that has a different checksum
They are doing this out of desperation. Now that digital downloads are catching up, they have lost their power over the sales channel. They have to talk to apple as equals and cant impose their tiered pricing schemes to them. They have lost control.
The ipod is more and more entrenched in popular culture every day. They are trying to break apples grip on this market with the zune, but its not working.
So if they cant control the DRM used, they don't want anyone else having this kind of control. They know that the one controlling DRM will be the one controlling all of the market.
With MS Office representing about a third of Microsoft's income, you can bet they aren't happy about this.
If I remember correctly, Microsoft had a policy of deleting email from their servers after a short period, in order to avoid it being used in trial.
This will have to change, then.
Now it is quite clear. Microsoft's deal with Novell is an attempt to keep the FUD going after SCO's case implodes. They must have very good legal counseling so they new what was coming.
We happen to have great intellectual property with Halo that could be made into a great movie
Is it just me or M$ is talking more and more about "intellectual property"?
If they are moving from a software development company based in copyright to a "intellectual property" company where movie rights and patents are going to be more and more important, then it is no wonder how disastrous Vista's development has been.
It is not only bureaucracy and red tape. They are becoming a company run by lawyers and bean counters that needs goverment protection to be able to assert their "intellectual property". With goverment protection comes goverment regulation, so they are becoming entangled in the lobbying game at Washington.
It looks to me like they have lost it.
Do you think you can do without reboot? in Windows?
Bwahahahahaha
Some people understand religion in one way and some people in another, but most of the religious beliefs are in contradiction with science.
In modern science you not only have evolution, you also have biologically inspired sociology, computational neuroscience and a number of other disciplines that you just cannot understand if you believe in a human soul. The more progress in this areas of study, the more problems you have trying to match this knowledge with religious faith.
Even the soft religious beliefs like "there must be something different about humans" are being challenged. We are just animals, no soul.