The US Government, and the States, have huge fuel taxes on diesel because "those big trucks do more damage to the roads"
This is just me, but Id think that a bigger vehicle = more fuel consumed per mile = more money from gas taxes, which are supposed to pay for fixing the roads. Not sure why the rate would need to increase, the system seems to scale just fine on its own.
Say, you willing to spend millions on creating the ford plant to produce the original copies, with no hope of recouping your investment? Im a bit short on cash right now, otherwise Id totally do it.
Waiters get paid ~$10-50 / hour off of tips. There is no need for their wages to be higher, and I dont think you would find any but the laziest and worst waiters willing to trade their tips for a crappy $10 / hr. I made an average of $12 / hour on crappy nights 10 years ago; today it would probably be closer to $16-18, and upwards of $40/ hour on friday / saturday nights.
If someone wants to use DRM on content THEY produced, why is that not their right?
Does your right as a non-paying "consumer" somehow trump their rights as a creator? Maybe code writers should also be forbidden from using any license other than BSD or GPL?
Everyone who wants to use DRM in vids already does, using flash. Its not "do we have DRM or not", its "will it be standard, or will there be 50 implementations?"
It also ignores the naievity of thinking "if we dont create a standard way to do something that people want to do, maybe theyll stop wanting to do it." You cant put the cat back in the bag simply by pretending the cat doesnt exist...
. I am quite sure that they need to pay far more than $2.10 for a typical waiter. Probably more like $8-$10 an hour
You are quite wrong. Ive waited several places and have family who has done the same. None of them provide above minimum wage for tipped staff, which was (~2003-2005) 2.10 / hr, 5.00 / hr for overtime.
In the event that your tips did not meet normal minimum wage, you would be compensated to hit minimum. However, what youre suggesting does not exist as a standard practice in the US AFAIK; certainly the national chains I worked at do not seem to be unusual in how they pay their staff.
The statement was a bit trollish, but I did hear that if you don't tip you're likely to not get quality service next time you come to the restaurant/bar.
Yes, the whole point of a tip is To Insure Promptness, and the idea (as with any commission based service) is that the better a job someone does, the better they get paid. If the waiter busts their butt and you dont pay well, what incentive do they have to bust their butt next time?
TL;DR GP doesnt understand commissions and merit-based pay.
false. The way DRM works is that the content is cryptographically encrypted. And only the vendor has the decryption key.
WMA uses DRM, and a far sight more MP3 players support WMA than FLAC.
pretty much all of them.
ORLY? Blackberry, iPhone, Creative Zen dont support Ogg; the Sansa clip only added it with a later firmware. None of them support the free MonkeysAudio, or Opus, or Speex.
Incidentally, they all support DRM'd WMA. So much for your argument that "DRM is the problem, not multiple standards".
Copyright is unjust? Oh, ok then. By what absolute standard are you making this claim, exactly, since both the founders of our country and its elected legislature over 200 years seem to disagree?
You do realize that "size" is the wrong word, as technically the "size" of the US is greater than that of China (and certainly greater than India).
The US is the third largest country in the world, in fact-- 9.8 million square kilometers, vs China's 9.7 and India's 3.2. Only Canada and Russia are bigger.
Am I exaggerating? A little... No wait, I'm not exaggerating at all, it really is a mass of incompatible formats, competing ecosystems
This and most of the problems you state are not problems of DRM, they are problems of competing standards. Thats not a problem that magically disappears when you get rid of DRM.
If you really want to fix things, you should come out with your own master standard that fits everyone's use case...
Im not sure if you are aware, but it is NOT the job of the justice department to change the law-- unless it is unconstitutional, which copyright is very clearly not (since it is explicitly mentioned in the constitiution as one of congress's duties).
So, no, its not a travesty of justice when the justice department follows its duties as laid out in the constitution and correctly judges whether someone has violated a US law.
The ability to run MacOS/X (without "hackintosh" style shenanigans) is really nice, and is worth $2000 extra if you have that kind of money lying around
Which doesnt explain why a lower end Mac costs only $1000. And whether its worth $2000 extra is about as subjective as it gets; particularly when I doubt you can name a capability that OSX has that Windows does not, or a benchmark showing a substantial performance difference.
Why not just a debian or RH flavor and be done with it if you really want a *nix?
Thats like arguing that your supermarket isnt to blame if they sell horsemeat as steak or something. You blame them (they are responsible for vetting the product they provide), and they will blame their vendor (who sold them a bad product).
As parent said, blame isnt this binary thing; multiple people can be at fault simultaneously, but as Chrome's vendor, the end user should look to Google for answers-- its not Linus' job to fix Chrome OS, its Google's.
1) There is no advertising on Google Code project pages
2) If there were, Google Code is generally used by "hg push" from a commandline, followed by comfirmation that my code has been synced; theres not really a place for advertising to appear
3) if Im using Google Code, I probably am already aware of Google, or I wouldnt be using it-- id be using one of the other free code repos.
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The US Government, and the States, have huge fuel taxes on diesel because "those big trucks do more damage to the roads"
This is just me, but Id think that a bigger vehicle = more fuel consumed per mile = more money from gas taxes, which are supposed to pay for fixing the roads. Not sure why the rate would need to increase, the system seems to scale just fine on its own.
Theres this thing called the "funnel" which seems made for just this sort of problem....
(please, noone actually try this)
Fair enough, and I dont have the answer.
But surely telling me that I am not allowed to distribute my content in a certain way isnt the way towards "freedom", either.
Wouldn't that be a wonderful thing?
Sure.
Say, you willing to spend millions on creating the ford plant to produce the original copies, with no hope of recouping your investment? Im a bit short on cash right now, otherwise Id totally do it.
Because DRM shall be cracked. Deal with it. So it will not stop the pirates.
What if i dont care and want to use DRM anyways? What about my right to distribute my content-- legally created-- however i see fit?
I don't want crappy spyware being a standart and implemented in every browser
Then dont install it, dont consume that content. Thats a pretty basic defense against these problems youre citing.
Waiters get paid ~$10-50 / hour off of tips. There is no need for their wages to be higher, and I dont think you would find any but the laziest and worst waiters willing to trade their tips for a crappy $10 / hr. I made an average of $12 / hour on crappy nights 10 years ago; today it would probably be closer to $16-18, and upwards of $40/ hour on friday / saturday nights.
Have you actually ever worked as a waiter?
If someone wants to use DRM on content THEY produced, why is that not their right?
Does your right as a non-paying "consumer" somehow trump their rights as a creator? Maybe code writers should also be forbidden from using any license other than BSD or GPL?
Everyone who wants to use DRM in vids already does, using flash. Its not "do we have DRM or not", its "will it be standard, or will there be 50 implementations?"
It also ignores the naievity of thinking "if we dont create a standard way to do something that people want to do, maybe theyll stop wanting to do it." You cant put the cat back in the bag simply by pretending the cat doesnt exist...
. I am quite sure that they need to pay far more than $2.10 for a typical waiter. Probably more like $8-$10 an hour
You are quite wrong. Ive waited several places and have family who has done the same. None of them provide above minimum wage for tipped staff, which was (~2003-2005) 2.10 / hr, 5.00 / hr for overtime.
In the event that your tips did not meet normal minimum wage, you would be compensated to hit minimum. However, what youre suggesting does not exist as a standard practice in the US AFAIK; certainly the national chains I worked at do not seem to be unusual in how they pay their staff.
The statement was a bit trollish, but I did hear that if you don't tip you're likely to not get quality service next time you come to the restaurant/bar.
Yes, the whole point of a tip is To Insure Promptness, and the idea (as with any commission based service) is that the better a job someone does, the better they get paid. If the waiter busts their butt and you dont pay well, what incentive do they have to bust their butt next time?
TL;DR GP doesnt understand commissions and merit-based pay.
Honestly, I think I would prefer the cheaper samsung sandwich over the aluminum unibody iWich from Apple.
Yes, waiters should be quite happy with the $2.10 /hour they make.
You do realize that many tipped services pay quite a bit lower, because theyre essentially commission-based?
To be clear, I wasnt defending DRM, I think it has issues, etc.
So, while you're right that a variety of standards is a big part of the problem
Thats all I was saying.
false. The way DRM works is that the content is cryptographically encrypted. And only the vendor has the decryption key.
WMA uses DRM, and a far sight more MP3 players support WMA than FLAC.
pretty much all of them.
ORLY? Blackberry, iPhone, Creative Zen dont support Ogg; the Sansa clip only added it with a later firmware. None of them support the free MonkeysAudio, or Opus, or Speex.
Incidentally, they all support DRM'd WMA. So much for your argument that "DRM is the problem, not multiple standards".
Copyright is unjust? Oh, ok then. By what absolute standard are you making this claim, exactly, since both the founders of our country and its elected legislature over 200 years seem to disagree?
Yes, that was the joke.
Hrmm it appears it's pretty trivial to have one player that can handle all the formats when you don't have the DRM restrictions
And it would be trivial to do so with a system WITH DRM restrictions.
Say, what percentage of MP3 players support Ogg and FLAC? Just curious.
You do realize that "size" is the wrong word, as technically the "size" of the US is greater than that of China (and certainly greater than India).
The US is the third largest country in the world, in fact-- 9.8 million square kilometers, vs China's 9.7 and India's 3.2. Only Canada and Russia are bigger.
Am I exaggerating? A little... No wait, I'm not exaggerating at all, it really is a mass of incompatible formats, competing ecosystems
This and most of the problems you state are not problems of DRM, they are problems of competing standards. Thats not a problem that magically disappears when you get rid of DRM.
If you really want to fix things, you should come out with your own master standard that fits everyone's use case...
because Apple's slower processor with half the processing cores will use less battery....
Thats not a for sure unless its been shown. I thought everyone would know by now that you cant just compare mhz to mhz across CPU families?
Quick, Ivy Bridge 3.4 GHz vs AMD 3.1GHz-- who will use less power? Pentium 4 2.8 vs Piledriver 2.4GHz-- which is faster?
You have to be a lawyer to know what the ramifications are, whether it holds up in court, and whether it means what you think it means.
Common sense and the law only overlap some of the time.
Im not sure if you are aware, but it is NOT the job of the justice department to change the law-- unless it is unconstitutional, which copyright is very clearly not (since it is explicitly mentioned in the constitiution as one of congress's duties).
So, no, its not a travesty of justice when the justice department follows its duties as laid out in the constitution and correctly judges whether someone has violated a US law.
The ability to run MacOS/X (without "hackintosh" style shenanigans) is really nice, and is worth $2000 extra if you have that kind of money lying around
Which doesnt explain why a lower end Mac costs only $1000. And whether its worth $2000 extra is about as subjective as it gets; particularly when I doubt you can name a capability that OSX has that Windows does not, or a benchmark showing a substantial performance difference.
Why not just a debian or RH flavor and be done with it if you really want a *nix?
Thats like arguing that your supermarket isnt to blame if they sell horsemeat as steak or something. You blame them (they are responsible for vetting the product they provide), and they will blame their vendor (who sold them a bad product).
As parent said, blame isnt this binary thing; multiple people can be at fault simultaneously, but as Chrome's vendor, the end user should look to Google for answers-- its not Linus' job to fix Chrome OS, its Google's.
1) There is no advertising on Google Code project pages
2) If there were, Google Code is generally used by "hg push" from a commandline, followed by comfirmation that my code has been synced; theres not really a place for advertising to appear
3) if Im using Google Code, I probably am already aware of Google, or I wouldnt be using it-- id be using one of the other free code repos.