Via a co-worker. Thanks, T!
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Copy Protection Cracked by Shift Key
Via <a href=”http://www.rewindlife.com/”>Chafic</a> @ <a href=”http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/”>Flash Lounge</a>, thanks yo!
<a href=”http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5087875.html”>http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5087875.html</a>
AND, my rants on it.
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About as effective as gun laws in the us. Criminals don’t buy guns through legal channels; why would music thieves be any different… Let along not know how to use their shift key?
…crackheads…
“Though simple, the act of holding down the Shift key in order to enable copying does let computer users know they’re doing something unauthorized, he said. That alone will dissuade many people from making copies, he added.”
Uh, I just pressed my Shift key. Sue me. If you don’t want me pressing it, why do keyboards have a shift key? If I couldn’t capitalize the first letter in every sentence, that would be bad grammar. So to prevent illegal music copying, I should type with bad grammar? I don’t think so…
I couldn’t even use the ! or ? sybmols. Are you saying I can’t ask a qeustion? Did I just do something illegal with this, the previous, and then next sentence by asking questions using the “?” symbol? Are you assuming that keyboards are illegal because of your copy protection methods say so? If want to use the SHIFT key…
blah blah blah…
…crackheads…
The record industry needs to wise up. All the politics make me laugh and cry at the same time. Every article I read says the CEO’s are open minded whilst the lawyers are like, “Nope. Sorry, pay up.” I’m all about paying for music but this cacophony of methods and punishing users without agreed upon standards is ridicolous. Till then, as long as you don’t upset a user or music artist, I laugh at your failure. And, no, I don’t want to help as the politics behind it would drive me mad.
Heck, I’d consult for free!
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MXDJ Castout: Part of an article I’m removing, wanna see?
Even though I’m the editor, I was comissioned to write an article for the up and coming “premiere” issue of the MX Developers Journal. Been working my arse off after work, combined with school homework, with a bunch of talented writers to make it a fantastic issue, …really! I wish they had this stuff back in Flash MX; would of been a great timesaver.
At any rate, in the timeframe allotted which is eerily similiar to the Publishing Industries crack-smoking notion of timeframes for written works (which I guess they assume has no bearing on quality, and keep in mind I don’t have extensive experience, so it’s subjective in that regard), I managed to go all over the map when I started. Imagine that.
So, in my own re-assessment with a few industry peers to look it over, I’ve found I need to focus more on just one topic, better organize some parts, and extend a few more once I add my example Flash file. So, because of the first part, I’ve removed the entire first section which was about 2 1/2 pages of the 14 page article (Verdana 10pt – not the style for the mag, mind you), and decided to place it here in hopes someone gains benefit from it.
The article is about taking a complex, artistic design a designer has made for you, a completed “comp” (composition) and implementing it into Flash using advanced ActionScript programmers are used to using. It’s a hybrid approach of timeline and OOP which RAD (Rapid Application Developement) people will love, and sales will adore in knowing that the impossible is possible.
However, this part is about the process leading up to actual implementation. In going to school for leadership and management, I am constantly viewing the world in different glasses lately, so am focused on processes, and making them better to help better facilitate a better quality product for the customer. Naturally, if I had had that attitude before writing the first 3 pages, this snippet would be better thought out, but I started under the pretense of Java programmers coming to Flash, and going, “You want me to implement WHAT!?”.
At any rate, hope it helps someone!
Look for the technical, and real article in the next issue of MXDJ which will show you, through a real example, how to take an insanely cool and complex design, and implement it without sacrificing your OOP code.
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Drag and Drop: Old to New
Dude, you can drag a componet from a Flash MX Library, and drop it on the Flash Pro stage! Well that certainly helps when converting old shiot… ROCK!