Well that was a silly question...I thought we all already knew Google's the one on track to be the next Microsoft. Just as Microsoft was the next IBM before it.
Even if Moore's "law" finally runs out, we'll still find ways to advance. Just as the multi-core shift has prolonged it kinda sorta in the CPU space, 3D chip design will continue to move us forward for the time being, until quantum computing or something novel based on memristors becomes available.
Yeah, I thought that was weird too. Every other 3D printer company I've seen was more than happy to show some examples of what they can make. I'm gonna consider this vaporware for now...
I looked at your party's site, and I see one glaring thing missing for you to have my support. I'd like to see a focus on true grass roots, distributed, bottom up government be a concentrated goal. A move toward direct democracy, participatory politics and proportional representation. Obviously this is a big, complex topic that would probably take many decades to transition to, but any progress toward it would be good IMO. Power should flow up from the people, not down from the White House.
Secondly, I think it would also fit in well with the rest of your agenda to make a concentrated effort in promoting mutualist organizations like cooperatives and other employee/member owned business models. Put in place incentives that push for them to replace the capitalist corporatism we have today. For true freedom we need democracy in the work place, not just the goverment.
God damn it...this is why I haven't commented on Slashdot for the past 5 years >_<
Fine...let's play your game...
What is the middle ground? Either you have DRM or you don't. How is it anything other than binary? I guess you could have exceptionally obnoxious forms (like the recent Sims game), but it is pretty much binary.
So, now you've made it clear you either did not even read my original post or most certainly did not comprehend it. The whole point is this:
DRM on things you have purchased = Bad. DRM on things you rent = perfectly fine and reasonable.
Yes in that a conclusion reached by a series of arguments backed up with personal experience is extremism. I happen to agree with RMS because I have previously purchased encumbered things and I can no longer use them despite paying good money for a completely legal copy. This has now happened a number of times to me, with various sorts of different DRM. At this point I'd feel that throwing good money after bad is a form of madness (inability to learn from experience) than anything else.
Once again, we're NOT talking about things you have purchased! That IS bad...but that's not what we're frakking talking about here >_<
You are basically advocating the polar opposite: so by your definition that is also extremism.
No, if I was advocating the polar opposite, I'd be advocating that any and all things should have DRM! Because it's just awesome! (that was sarcasm, since apparently you need everything spelled out for you)
Well, if anything you have at least done the service for me today in remembering how pathetic this community is for when you actually want to have a discussion rather than iconoclasts spouting off the same repetitive bullshit. Slashdot comments might as well be a thread on 4chan it still seems. Thanks...
You may support defective by design software because it happens to suppor the small subset of things that you happen to do with it, but do not pretend that is is reasonable or lets people do all the reasonable things they want.
There is no technical difference between a reasonable copy for reasonable purposes and an illegal copy for nefarious ones. That is why DRM is always, without exception, bad.
So, I'm pretty sure I did read you right. Your words make it sound like you're pretty hardcore in believing this to be a binary issue, with no option for a middle ground. Pretty much the definition of extremism. That and the use of Stallman's old "defective by design" rhetoric. So, I think we're done here...or at least I am.
There is no DRM in HTML5. The spec everyone's so up in arms about simply adds hooks where a 3rd party plugin can connect with it. The actual DRM component will never be part of the actual HTML spec.
Because the viewpoint you're posting with is exactly why I felt the need to make my first post at all. Slashdot is unfortunately filled with so many zealots that it's hard to put out a moderate viewpoint sometimes. Your assumption that "DRM is always bad because it's DRM" comes off pretty extremist to me. Sorry if I somehow misread your sentiment though...
I know it's blasphemy to say so, especially on Slashdot, but I have zero problem with Netflix using DRM. Why? It's a rental service. I have not purchased these videos. I do not own them. Therefore I have no expectation of any sort of rights to do what I want with them. So, as while I'm totally against it for things like iTunes or a BluRay. It completely makes sense to me that Netflix needs some sort of mechanism, even if it only keep 99% of people from keeping a local copy.
The point of DRM is not to give you absolutely no way to capture the content, but simply to make it difficult enough that the average person doesn't just right click and say save file to disk. It's like the lock on my front door. Do people know how to pick it? With enough effort can it be knocked down by brute force, sure. But most people will not attempt to open a locked door, so it serves it's purpose.
I could see the mosquito based evidence as enough to consider him a suspect, maybe even to get a search warrant perhaps (although that's already a stretch), but by no means should this even remotely count towards conviction as that mosquito could have come from almost anywhere. Still if finding the DNA in the mosquito leads them to find actual evidence, I suppose it's okay.
No Windows allowed unless on a company owned machine with absolutely no privaledges and a hardcore resident anti-malware tool running. If possible disable IE & Outlook too. If user is accessing via wifi require wpa2 encryption. Otherwise your users are gonna get you infected with their home Limewiring habits or at least have their login info stolen by a keylogger
Yeah, I do that all the time. I've played 100's of games over at my friends' houses over the past few years and within half an hour, I've more than gotten my fill. For every game I've found fun enough to warrant a purchase (as well as investing the time to play them) there are hundreds that I was more than happy to skip. Poor quality, plus over inflated price equals you don't get my money.
For example: Thank god I didn't buy Spore! What a dissapointment... I was so excited for that game over the past 3 years, but then this guy had to ruin it. Not even beginning to mention the draconian DRM.
Exactly. If the game industry wants to kill off the used game market...and piracy for the most part too...in one fell swoop, all they need to do is lower the average game's price to around $20-30. If I can get a brand new copy of a game for $20, no way in hell I'm gonna pay Game Stop $15 for a used copy. It's simple economics really...
Not only that, but if the industry really truely wants to make gaming a mass market affair, they are going to have to lower the costs for players. If movies cost $50-60 per title, hardly anyone would buy them either.
To take Ziakll's argument even further... One problem with today's game industry is how long it takes to make a video game. Back in the 80s games could be made with a small handful of people in less than a year. Now it takes about 10 times as many people and anywhere from 2 to 5 years to produce a game. The biggest time (and of course money) sink in this process is art and level development. If raytracing can make things simpler and quicker to get accomplished for an artist then that will equal less time for production, and less development cost (maybe even cheaper games for the consumer in the long run). Real time raytracing is only inevatable just as it's only a matter of time till tools like Natural Motion's Endorphin and Euphoria take over the animation aspect. Any aspect of the development process that can be simplified or even better automated, will eventually win out.
I'm betting that AMD's upcoming Hybrid chips will greatly benefit from Real Time Ray Tracing taking off. I'd just love to see someone come out with an open source RTRT engine that we could all start playing with right now, no matter how rudimentary;)
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I'm still mourning the loss of Fez II thanks to all the haters and trolls :(
Well that was a silly question...I thought we all already knew Google's the one on track to be the next Microsoft. Just as Microsoft was the next IBM before it.
nm...just ignore that, I see where the OP mentions now. Stupid slashdot, why can't I delete posts >_
She did not purposefully release that this was her pseudonym, so kind of a bad example. There have been numerous news posts today about how she's mad at the PR firm that leaked the info... http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/07/19/203548818/book-news-j-k-rowling-very-angry-that-law-firm-leaked-her-name
Even if Moore's "law" finally runs out, we'll still find ways to advance. Just as the multi-core shift has prolonged it kinda sorta in the CPU space, 3D chip design will continue to move us forward for the time being, until quantum computing or something novel based on memristors becomes available.
Yeah, I thought that was weird too. Every other 3D printer company I've seen was more than happy to show some examples of what they can make. I'm gonna consider this vaporware for now...
I looked at your party's site, and I see one glaring thing missing for you to have my support. I'd like to see a focus on true grass roots, distributed, bottom up government be a concentrated goal. A move toward direct democracy, participatory politics and proportional representation. Obviously this is a big, complex topic that would probably take many decades to transition to, but any progress toward it would be good IMO. Power should flow up from the people, not down from the White House.
Secondly, I think it would also fit in well with the rest of your agenda to make a concentrated effort in promoting mutualist organizations like cooperatives and other employee/member owned business models. Put in place incentives that push for them to replace the capitalist corporatism we have today. For true freedom we need democracy in the work place, not just the goverment.
Until then, I'll stick with the Green Party.
Fine...let's play your game...
What is the middle ground? Either you have DRM or you don't. How is it anything other than binary? I guess you could have exceptionally obnoxious forms (like the recent Sims game), but it is pretty much binary.
So, now you've made it clear you either did not even read my original post or most certainly did not comprehend it. The whole point is this: DRM on things you have purchased = Bad. DRM on things you rent = perfectly fine and reasonable.
Yes in that a conclusion reached by a series of arguments backed up with personal experience is extremism. I happen to agree with RMS because I have previously purchased encumbered things and I can no longer use them despite paying good money for a completely legal copy. This has now happened a number of times to me, with various sorts of different DRM. At this point I'd feel that throwing good money after bad is a form of madness (inability to learn from experience) than anything else.
Once again, we're NOT talking about things you have purchased! That IS bad...but that's not what we're frakking talking about here >_<
You are basically advocating the polar opposite: so by your definition that is also extremism.
No, if I was advocating the polar opposite, I'd be advocating that any and all things should have DRM! Because it's just awesome! (that was sarcasm, since apparently you need everything spelled out for you)
Well, if anything you have at least done the service for me today in remembering how pathetic this community is for when you actually want to have a discussion rather than iconoclasts spouting off the same repetitive bullshit. Slashdot comments might as well be a thread on 4chan it still seems. Thanks...
How is IP an immoral concept? You can't just make blanket statements like that and act like it's something everyone agrees with you on.
You may support defective by design software because it happens to suppor the small subset of things that you happen to do with it, but do not pretend that is is reasonable or lets people do all the reasonable things they want. There is no technical difference between a reasonable copy for reasonable purposes and an illegal copy for nefarious ones. That is why DRM is always, without exception, bad.
So, I'm pretty sure I did read you right. Your words make it sound like you're pretty hardcore in believing this to be a binary issue, with no option for a middle ground. Pretty much the definition of extremism. That and the use of Stallman's old "defective by design" rhetoric. So, I think we're done here...or at least I am.
If Netflix not working just how you want it inspires you to violence, you should probably seek some professional help.
There is no DRM in HTML5. The spec everyone's so up in arms about simply adds hooks where a 3rd party plugin can connect with it. The actual DRM component will never be part of the actual HTML spec.
Because the viewpoint you're posting with is exactly why I felt the need to make my first post at all. Slashdot is unfortunately filled with so many zealots that it's hard to put out a moderate viewpoint sometimes. Your assumption that "DRM is always bad because it's DRM" comes off pretty extremist to me. Sorry if I somehow misread your sentiment though...
And this is why extremism, even with the best intentions is also bad.
DASH and other technologies will soon make it just as easy to do adaptive streaming based on your current bandwidth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Adaptive_Streaming_over_HTTP
I know it's blasphemy to say so, especially on Slashdot, but I have zero problem with Netflix using DRM. Why? It's a rental service. I have not purchased these videos. I do not own them. Therefore I have no expectation of any sort of rights to do what I want with them. So, as while I'm totally against it for things like iTunes or a BluRay. It completely makes sense to me that Netflix needs some sort of mechanism, even if it only keep 99% of people from keeping a local copy.
The point of DRM is not to give you absolutely no way to capture the content, but simply to make it difficult enough that the average person doesn't just right click and say save file to disk. It's like the lock on my front door. Do people know how to pick it? With enough effort can it be knocked down by brute force, sure. But most people will not attempt to open a locked door, so it serves it's purpose.
I could see the mosquito based evidence as enough to consider him a suspect, maybe even to get a search warrant perhaps (although that's already a stretch), but by no means should this even remotely count towards conviction as that mosquito could have come from almost anywhere. Still if finding the DNA in the mosquito leads them to find actual evidence, I suppose it's okay.
No Windows allowed unless on a company owned machine with absolutely no privaledges and a hardcore resident anti-malware tool running. If possible disable IE & Outlook too. If user is accessing via wifi require wpa2 encryption. Otherwise your users are gonna get you infected with their home Limewiring habits or at least have their login info stolen by a keylogger
Reminds me of that new Gran Turismo with only one car...
Yeah, I do that all the time. I've played 100's of games over at my friends' houses over the past few years and within half an hour, I've more than gotten my fill. For every game I've found fun enough to warrant a purchase (as well as investing the time to play them) there are hundreds that I was more than happy to skip. Poor quality, plus over inflated price equals you don't get my money.
For example: Thank god I didn't buy Spore! What a dissapointment... I was so excited for that game over the past 3 years, but then this guy had to ruin it. Not even beginning to mention the draconian DRM.
Exactly. If the game industry wants to kill off the used game market...and piracy for the most part too...in one fell swoop, all they need to do is lower the average game's price to around $20-30. If I can get a brand new copy of a game for $20, no way in hell I'm gonna pay Game Stop $15 for a used copy. It's simple economics really...
Not only that, but if the industry really truely wants to make gaming a mass market affair, they are going to have to lower the costs for players. If movies cost $50-60 per title, hardly anyone would buy them either.
To take Ziakll's argument even further... One problem with today's game industry is how long it takes to make a video game. Back in the 80s games could be made with a small handful of people in less than a year. Now it takes about 10 times as many people and anywhere from 2 to 5 years to produce a game. The biggest time (and of course money) sink in this process is art and level development. If raytracing can make things simpler and quicker to get accomplished for an artist then that will equal less time for production, and less development cost (maybe even cheaper games for the consumer in the long run). Real time raytracing is only inevatable just as it's only a matter of time till tools like Natural Motion's Endorphin and Euphoria take over the animation aspect. Any aspect of the development process that can be simplified or even better automated, will eventually win out.
;)
I'm betting that AMD's upcoming Hybrid chips will greatly benefit from Real Time Ray Tracing taking off. I'd just love to see someone come out with an open source RTRT engine that we could all start playing with right now, no matter how rudimentary
Better question: Does Intrepid run Intrepid?
Is there any official/documented proof that it's not a true native port?