>Name a major automobile manufacturer that enjoys even a 5% market share.
2004 data in the US: Ford: 18.5% GM: 26.9% Chrysler: 13.5%
You might have wanted to pick a market that isn't dominated by mega-corporations.
>I can't say for sure on other Blu-ray players, but my PS3 is also a very good DVD player, so I don't see how you think Blu-ray is >in competition with DVD, since it does both. It really is NO competition, in my book.
It's still competing against DVD. When someone goes to a store deciding what movie player he wants to have the decision will be between a cheap DVD player or an expensive blu-ray player. For quite a lot of people blu-ray just doesn't offer enough of an visual upgrade to be worth the price, most people's televisions don't even support Full HD (like mine).
I don't think it'll be able to beat DVD's and DVD players in market share until it can compete in price and that still looks to be far far away. It really wouldn't surprise me if in the meantime someone invents a cheaper, more durable and faster/larger format and blu-ray will end up being a mostly skipped generation.
I'd say the blu-ray sales have gone up, way up is an overstatement since their market share is still rather low compared to it's main competitor, the DVD.
Going offtopic about Apple.
Stock prices are very different from sales and market share since all you really care about when it comes to stock is the relative value, going up 1800% is enough to make people really really rich. However saying your sales went up with 350% doesn't mean anything by itself, you can still be making a loss and you can still have a pathetic market share.
Also about Apple's stock, I'm very unsure if you can take that and say it shows shifting trends in personal computing. Doesn't most of Apples income come from iPod, iPhone and iTunes at this point? Their market share in personal computing is still abysmal.
While cold boot is a really scary attack isn't it really hard to access the ram in a smartphone/PDA? Wasnt even the battery soldered in place in the Iphone?
I have no idea how blu-ray sales are going, if I was making a bet I'd say that the next generation of HD will be the one that actually breaks through, blu-ray doesn't offer enough over DVD for the price. I have no data to back this up.
My point was only that your quote was really bad journalism.
In my experience the best interface to get hard work done is an easy one, as in intuitive. The time you spend fighting the interface is time that should have been spent getting work done.
I really liked the first one aswell, especially the propaganda videos they inserted here and there. All the other films somehow managed to take all the bad parts of the first film and remove all the good parts.
The argument against lifetime is that you don't want the record company assassinating various artist to earn money. You could argue for lifetime OR X years whichever lasses longer where X might be 10-20 years.
I don't think anyone wants a free-for-all copyright world since that would make it almost impossible to make profit creating works that previously could be copyrithed.
Anyhow my original point was that the better the OSS code is out there and the more draconian the copyright laws are the more the companies get financially hurt by their own copyright system(they lobbied for it) and I think that's part of the idea behind the GPL.
Isn't the problem with rural DSL not so much signal strenght as much as that the telephone companies arn't terribly interested in putting down DSLAMs in the middle of nowhere?
Also I suspect that data has higher quality requirements then just voice, small differences in the frequencies won't affect what you hear much but I'll mess up your loss ratio for data.
It's more like: To legally call it a computer it has to fulfill criteria X, Y and Z. In addition you have to allow refunds for A, B and C and you are legally responsible to provide K, L and M and you have to accept unopened returns for Q amount of time and opened returns for W amount of time if it's your fault.
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Because, I don't know, Red Alert 2 didn't have squads entering buildings 6 years before CoH did.
Personally I think Warcraft 3 is still the most enjoyable RTS for me, mostly becasue of custom maps though.
In my experience most internet DVD rips look rather good on my projector screen. It's not like DVD's contain HD content to begin with.
The fact the download link is available and the work is GPL'd IS the permission.
>Name a major automobile manufacturer that enjoys even a 5% market share.
2004 data in the US:
Ford: 18.5%
GM: 26.9%
Chrysler: 13.5%
You might have wanted to pick a market that isn't dominated by mega-corporations.
>I can't say for sure on other Blu-ray players, but my PS3 is also a very good DVD player, so I don't see how you think Blu-ray is
>in competition with DVD, since it does both. It really is NO competition, in my book.
It's still competing against DVD. When someone goes to a store deciding what movie player he wants to have the decision will be between a cheap DVD player or an expensive blu-ray player. For quite a lot of people blu-ray just doesn't offer enough of an visual upgrade to be worth the price, most people's televisions don't even support Full HD (like mine).
I don't think it'll be able to beat DVD's and DVD players in market share until it can compete in price and that still looks to be far far away. It really wouldn't surprise me if in the meantime someone invents a cheaper, more durable and faster/larger format and blu-ray will end up being a mostly skipped generation.
I'd say the blu-ray sales have gone up, way up is an overstatement since their market share is still rather low compared to it's main competitor, the DVD.
Going offtopic about Apple.
Stock prices are very different from sales and market share since all you really care about when it comes to stock is the relative value, going up 1800% is enough to make people really really rich. However saying your sales went up with 350% doesn't mean anything by itself, you can still be making a loss and you can still have a pathetic market share.
Also about Apple's stock, I'm very unsure if you can take that and say it shows shifting trends in personal computing. Doesn't most of Apples income come from iPod, iPhone and iTunes at this point? Their market share in personal computing is still abysmal.
While cold boot is a really scary attack isn't it really hard to access the ram in a smartphone/PDA? Wasnt even the battery soldered in place in the Iphone?
I have no idea how blu-ray sales are going, if I was making a bet I'd say that the next generation of HD will be the one that actually breaks through, blu-ray doesn't offer enough over DVD for the price. I have no data to back this up.
My point was only that your quote was really bad journalism.
That's what's known as misleading statistics. It's easy going up an impressive percentage when your original value was really low.
In my experience the best interface to get hard work done is an easy one, as in intuitive. The time you spend fighting the interface is time that should have been spent getting work done.
I really liked the first one aswell, especially the propaganda videos they inserted here and there. All the other films somehow managed to take all the bad parts of the first film and remove all the good parts.
Technically there is no law, there is a proposal that a law should be made. It's not dumb, it's just guesswork.
I'm glad the swedish law is still a bit more resonable. It's legal aslong as the person is over 18 or looks like he/she could be over 18.
In practise it means child porn laws are only applied to what it should be, prepubescent children.
Having sex with anyone below 15 still counts as rape though regardless of how they look.
You'd think the old law would still apply even after someone applies a photoshop filter to their photograph.
That would depend on the exact phrasing of the law but most likely it might have needed censoring.
So you have no problem with the concept of thought crime ?
Killing people because of what they think is most likely not a good idea.
Convinience>Efficiency
My desktops tend to be extremely messy and most of my folders are in thumbnail mode.
Adobe, it's a mess?
The argument against lifetime is that you don't want the record company assassinating various artist to earn money. You could argue for lifetime OR X years whichever lasses longer where X might be 10-20 years.
I don't think anyone wants a free-for-all copyright world since that would make it almost impossible to make profit creating works that previously could be copyrithed.
Anyhow my original point was that the better the OSS code is out there and the more draconian the copyright laws are the more the companies get financially hurt by their own copyright system(they lobbied for it) and I think that's part of the idea behind the GPL.
Isn't the problem with rural DSL not so much signal strenght as much as that the telephone companies arn't terribly interested in putting down DSLAMs in the middle of nowhere?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_subscriber_line
Also I suspect that data has higher quality requirements then just voice, small differences in the frequencies won't affect what you hear much but I'll mess up your loss ratio for data.
I thought the idea behind the GPL was the very opposite, that if they want to impose draconian copyright laws on us we can impose GPL on them.
I doubt that they'd make that an effective cluster also the complexity of RSA encryption is just silly.
For example breaking a 663 bit RSA number took 75 years of 2.2ghz computer time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_factorization
Could you tell me exactly what the "Apple issue" was?
The idea in Europe being that the state will force the companies to be fair regardless if they want it or not.
It's more like:
To legally call it a computer it has to fulfill criteria X, Y and Z. In addition you have to allow refunds for A, B and C and you are legally responsible to provide K, L and M and you have to accept unopened returns for Q amount of time and opened returns for W amount of time if it's your fault.