(Unless you're really into smartphone cameras. Apple's photography team make incredible year-on-year leaps.)
What about said leaps is not credible?
It gets tiring, the way Apple marketing, and their minions, toss adjectives around. It's a cultural thing, and it's been a problem since the 80's, when Apple made many 'insanely incredible' widgets and gadgets.
More likely, an ADB mouse, to resolve that yearning for a true one-button mouse. I bet you could even get an adapter that converts from the DB9 connector of a Mac Plus mouse to ADB and then use an ADB dongle to hook it to your Macincheeesebook Pro.
The rest of us can create and enjoy our content without [incumbent publishers].
Until "the rest of us" get takedown notices for having created "our content" that is allegedly accidentally too similar to their works.
Well, that's a whole separate issue than the browser DRM being discussed here. Yes, a 'slippery slope' argument can be made, but it's a slippery slope argument.
A really expensive PC computer hardware that will became obsolete in a year, adding the added a high price for games we have something that is not for most people Versus a console priced at the same price as a regular laptop that won't become obsolete for a while (at least 3 or 4 years for Microsoft and nintendo and 5 years at least for PlayStyation).
Doesn't happen anymore. A six year old PC is good enough to play most games equivalent to how a console plays them.
The speculators will kill the cryptocurrencies for us. They're keen on making a big deal about how much the value swings around and they've made a mint because of it. The complete opposite of what a currency should do.
The "best stuff on the Internet" isn't movies and TV. Those can be gotten lots of different ways, or can be left, altogether. It's just stupid corporate entertainment crap, by and large.
The "best stuff on the Internet" in my opinion, is still there, and isn't going to be effected in any way by DRM.
Finally somebody with some common sense in this thread. I was getting worried.
What 'would of' corporations lock Pale Moon out of? Their DRM protected content? There's a whole web out there. Some of us will adopt a browser like Pale Moon if it protects us from 'protected' content.
Also make sure you review the code in the embedded controllers of your keyboard, mouse, hard drive, optical drive, video card, printer, router, and usb hub. And that little adapter board between your optical drive and the sata cable, too, obviously. They are all seperate processors with their own toolchains. Oh, and the jtag probe you attach to some of them to monitor what they are running.. better review the code in that first.
The source code being available also makes it easier for somebody to fork it and introduce malware components. Just make changes, recompile, distribute corrupt new version as a binary. That is much more work if the full source code is not available to corrupt.
So,it cuts both ways. Open source is in no way a panacea.
Correct. So people who have made direct copies can be told to desist. However, likenesses that are not copies are more like trademarks.
This could be a good thing, if it further strains the tenuous legal precedent that keeps 'the mouse' in business.
That said, the image of pepe is like an infowars.com link. My reflex when I've been tricked into loading a page on alex's festerpit is to click it closed without further review. Pepe images or avatars on comment forums are useful the same way as 'ignore this' markers.
I would wager pretty good money that most of the far-right renditions of pepe are not digital copies but instead new artwork.
Who is providing the funding behind this legal action? Pepe was never a particularly successful commercial endeavor. The artist musst have backing from somebody with a political axe to grind.
People do idiotic things when they think they are being leading edge explorers. 'Beta' attracts the propellerhead contingent. I can't say I haven't been guilty of such foolishness in my indiscretionate earlier years.
I remember the first Windows NT beta. I went for it hot and heavy. I actually spent $1200 on a new 486 (33 megahertz!) motherboard and 16 megs of ram for it. And I needed a CD-ROM drive, so I went straight to CompUSA and spent another $600 on the Sound Blaster Multimedia PC upgrade. That was a 1x propritary interface CD-ROM drive that plugged into a Sound Blaster Pro card. This was before the existence of IDE CD drives, the wiser option would have been an even more expensive SCSI setup.
Anyhow, I went full-bore with the Windows NT beta install. I eagerly converted my hard drive full of all my 'stuff' (a 300 MB ESDI drive which was a serious piece of hardware in that era) to the NTFS. Then I discovered something interesting. The propritary Sound Blaster CD drive was supported for installing NT, but there was NO driver support for the drive once NT was installed. My fancy new multimedia CDROM PC was gimped completely. Being the young idiot I was at the time, I trashed it all, lost everything, and reverted back to the DOS.
The only saving grace in the whole thing was that right after this, in the winter of 1993, Yggdrasil came out with their 'plug and play Linux' distribution (the first edition, with the white-cover manual printed with green and black ink), which worked fabulously on systems with the Sound Blaster Pro CDROM system. I was one of the first people in the world to boot up a commercial ready-for-consumers Linux and had a highly capable system to do it with. The Yggdrasil system booted from a floppy drive but then launched a live filesystem Linux off the CD-ROM. It played music at the login prompt and the demo sequence loaded an MPEG video on X11.
Anyways, that is a diversion, but I never would have has the hardware just sitting there ready for Linux if NT hadn't been such a disaster for me.
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(Unless you're really into smartphone cameras. Apple's photography team make incredible year-on-year leaps.)
What about said leaps is not credible?
It gets tiring, the way Apple marketing, and their minions, toss adjectives around. It's a cultural thing, and it's been a problem since the 80's, when Apple made many 'insanely incredible' widgets and gadgets.
Any Apple enthusiast could have told you AMOLED displays are terrible, up til about a week and a half ago. Now they're super!
I have a TRS-80 Model 100, and it still works fine.
Granted, it runs on alkaline AA batteries, but still, it's from the early 1980s.
More likely, an ADB mouse, to resolve that yearning for a true one-button mouse. I bet you could even get an adapter that converts from the DB9 connector of a Mac Plus mouse to ADB and then use an ADB dongle to hook it to your Macincheeesebook Pro.
The rest of us can create and enjoy our content without [incumbent publishers].
Until "the rest of us" get takedown notices for having created "our content" that is allegedly accidentally too similar to their works.
Well, that's a whole separate issue than the browser DRM being discussed here. Yes, a 'slippery slope' argument can be made, but it's a slippery slope argument.
That sounds like a MacOS defect. You can't run binaries at all until the developer has kissed Apple's ring?
Or is that a default setting that can be corrected by the user?
A really expensive PC computer hardware that will became obsolete in a year, adding the added a high price for games we have something that is not for most people Versus a console priced at the same price as a regular laptop that won't become obsolete for a while (at least 3 or 4 years for Microsoft and nintendo and 5 years at least for PlayStyation).
Doesn't happen anymore. A six year old PC is good enough to play most games equivalent to how a console plays them.
Nobody cares about 'App Store Restrictions.'
In fact, nobody cares much about App Stores.
Sitting on a park bench....
The speculators will kill the cryptocurrencies for us. They're keen on making a big deal about how much the value swings around and they've made a mint because of it. The complete opposite of what a currency should do.
It refers to games where there are people stupid enough to want to watch other people play the game.
It's actually something that we can hope will die out. Right now some big companies are trying to use it to monetize.
The "best stuff on the Internet" isn't movies and TV. Those can be gotten lots of different ways, or can be left, altogether. It's just stupid corporate entertainment crap, by and large.
The "best stuff on the Internet" in my opinion, is still there, and isn't going to be effected in any way by DRM.
Finally somebody with some common sense in this thread. I was getting worried.
The question should be, why are YOU obsessed with DRM in your browser? You can still do a video and audio capture on your screen, as you please.
Who cares if they control the distribution channel of their content. The rest of us can create and enjoy our content without them.
If we use browsers that cannot view the DRM-protected content, what will we miss out on? How will the web be more closed if we do so?
The W3C needs to be routed around, that is obvious, but you do that by routing around them, not by moaning about the demise of the web.
What 'would of' corporations lock Pale Moon out of? Their DRM protected content? There's a whole web out there. Some of us will adopt a browser like Pale Moon if it protects us from 'protected' content.
Just cancelled my subscription.
Can I have your stuff?
Also make sure you review the code in the embedded controllers of your keyboard, mouse, hard drive, optical drive, video card, printer, router, and usb hub. And that little adapter board between your optical drive and the sata cable, too, obviously. They are all seperate processors with their own toolchains. Oh, and the jtag probe you attach to some of them to monitor what they are running.. better review the code in that first.
The source code being available also makes it easier for somebody to fork it and introduce malware components. Just make changes, recompile, distribute corrupt new version as a binary. That is much more work if the full source code is not available to corrupt.
So,it cuts both ways. Open source is in no way a panacea.
Correct. So people who have made direct copies can be told to desist. However, likenesses that are not copies are more like trademarks.
This could be a good thing, if it further strains the tenuous legal precedent that keeps 'the mouse' in business.
That said, the image of pepe is like an infowars.com link. My reflex when I've been tricked into loading a page on alex's festerpit is to click it closed without further review. Pepe images or avatars on comment forums are useful the same way as 'ignore this' markers.
Streisand effect.
You are obviously a fucking suit. Leave Slashdot. Scat! Get outta here.
Thw W3C is not a majority-rule organisation. It is a voluntary consensus based body. The EFF isn't going to participate in a farce.
I would wager pretty good money that most of the far-right renditions of pepe are not digital copies but instead new artwork.
Who is providing the funding behind this legal action? Pepe was never a particularly successful commercial endeavor. The artist musst have backing from somebody with a political axe to grind.
People do idiotic things when they think they are being leading edge explorers. 'Beta' attracts the propellerhead contingent. I can't say I haven't been guilty of such foolishness in my indiscretionate earlier years.
I remember the first Windows NT beta. I went for it hot and heavy. I actually spent $1200 on a new 486 (33 megahertz!) motherboard and 16 megs of ram for it. And I needed a CD-ROM drive, so I went straight to CompUSA and spent another $600 on the Sound Blaster Multimedia PC upgrade. That was a 1x propritary interface CD-ROM drive that plugged into a Sound Blaster Pro card. This was before the existence of IDE CD drives, the wiser option would have been an even more expensive SCSI setup.
Anyhow, I went full-bore with the Windows NT beta install. I eagerly converted my hard drive full of all my 'stuff' (a 300 MB ESDI drive which was a serious piece of hardware in that era) to the NTFS. Then I discovered something interesting. The propritary Sound Blaster CD drive was supported for installing NT, but there was NO driver support for the drive once NT was installed. My fancy new multimedia CDROM PC was gimped completely. Being the young idiot I was at the time, I trashed it all, lost everything, and reverted back to the DOS.
The only saving grace in the whole thing was that right after this, in the winter of 1993, Yggdrasil came out with their 'plug and play Linux' distribution (the first edition, with the white-cover manual printed with green and black ink), which worked fabulously on systems with the Sound Blaster Pro CDROM system. I was one of the first people in the world to boot up a commercial ready-for-consumers Linux and had a highly capable system to do it with. The Yggdrasil system booted from a floppy drive but then launched a live filesystem Linux off the CD-ROM. It played music at the login prompt and the demo sequence loaded an MPEG video on X11.
Anyways, that is a diversion, but I never would have has the hardware just sitting there ready for Linux if NT hadn't been such a disaster for me.