Not to say that recording music is EASY by any means: I've done a handful of studio sessions, and learned that I hate sitting in the studio. It's just significantly easier than producing a AAA title like Diablo 3, where music is just one aspect that needs to be addressed.
Not least because a AAA title often includes a full album's worth of music now!
Ah, ok, so "copyright infringement" and refusing to pay when you owe the money required to pay, breaking EULAs and service agreements and such is now "broken business model."
"I don't want to pay for things that require money to make" is just defying a "broken business model."
Maybe I'm spoiled, but my $50/month Fios connection
You are spoiled! The vast majority of the country has no access to FIOS, and a good chunk of it only has one cable or DSL provider choice. I have a friend whose only options for connectivity is directional wireless.
"More" limited, but Netflix's US library is extremely limited. In my 30-dvd queue of non-obscure stuff, usually only 4-5 are ever available for streaming.
The online streaming situation sucks. It's horribly broken. A nice example: Game of Thrones
I remember. It was when the CD first came out. The media companies were promising up and down that if we all adopted it and started repurchasing all our music, the price of CDs would quick fail to a few dollars.
Over time, they did fall! Especially as the prices never kept up with inflation.
For everything else such as comedies, dramas, etc. who gives a fuck about "SD" (Standard Definition) quality?
Strangely, one of the movies that I most noticed the resolution increase was with Gran Torino. It'd apply to any movie with sumptuous set design and costuming too, assuming you're into that sort of thing.
Digital *Rental* Mis-Management.. (Yes, intentionally creating a new DRM acronym. =)
Hey now, what's wrong with Digital Restrictions Management? =)
2) Netflix will be gone in 2 years. They can't afford the licensing costs.
I hope Netflix remains as I use it now -- DVD/BR by mail. Online streaming is a very fucked up situation, and I don't see it being resolved for decades. And the speed of ISPs, fiber, etc is the least of the problems.
DRM is the problem. I have HDCP supporting monitors, HDCP support HDMI cables, HDCP supporting hardware, and yet there are still HDCP handshake issues with purchased media
Worse, there are HDCP handshake issues with HDCP-supporting devices, regardless of what media is used. My HD Tivo, PS3, projector, and Monoprice HDMI switcher f' up the handshaking pretty often, resulting in having to switch back and forth between inputs a few times before everything syncs right.
25"? My PC monitor is 24" and greater than 1080p, and it's just about good enough for 1.5m - 2m away. I wouldn't dream of having a screen so small in a living room,
and you know, if they alter the drm they're _fucked_. nobody would be able to sort out the mess of different generations of bluray players being able to play different discs and the mess that would be to consumers(nearing on fraud actually).
I thought that one of the major selling points (to the studios) with Blu-Rays is that the DRM control scheme was updateable on the fly -- it can be done over the Internet... I -thought- that new DRM schemes could be included on the Blu-Ray disc itself, and that every Blu-Ray player is required to be able to update its supported DRM schemes.
Region restrictions serve primarily three purposes: 1) Ensuring that Blu-Ray sales in one region don't compete with theatrical attendance in other regions. Releasing on the same day globally is very expensive, and different countries have different high-periods for movie attendance.
2) Localization, something I'm not a fan of anyway. I'd much rather cultural references fly over my head than have them be removed. That applies to dubbing as well.
3) Enforcing distribution agreements. Sometimes a distributor is not legally or contractually allowed to distribute a movie/show outside of its
That being said, I believe Blu-Rays are actually far more lax with region encoding than DVDs are. There are only three regions for Blu-Rays (as opposed to 7? 9? for DVDs) meaning any particular Blu-Ray will play in a larger area than an equivalent Blu-Ray. Region restrictions are enforced by player software, not hardware, so you'll have less of the "you get 5 region changes" situations than you would have had with DVDs. Also, it's far more likely that a Blu-Ray will be released region-free. All of Paramount's and Universal's titles are region-free, while other studios have differing percentages of titles.
Sadly, DRM is far more onerous, even while region locking has become less of a problem.
The big reason we can't make these sorts of products in the US anymore is that we've outsourced our entire ability to make them, so there's no infrastructure left.
Believe it or not, the way to fix the problem is to create more sweat shops in China.
Actually, believe it or not, the way to fix the problem is not to outsource labor anymore. Have things built by domestic workers and pay the price that costs.
Apple, Samsung, everyone else can get away with it because we've unconsciously decided that worker's rights result in products that cost more than we are willing to pay.
I like how we're talking about the activities of a private corporation and somehow you turn the discussion toward how "government is bad, m'kay"?
The article being discussed was about both. There is a concerted effort on the part of corporations to lock down everything and eliminate tinkering, and the effort of the government to tar those who try to tinker anyway.
So, you're going to ignore the ever-more totalitarian government policies and legislation that enables the taking-down of websites and web services without due process, the restrictions on free speech, the loss of basic rights in being scanned & searched at airports, the emergence of domestic civilian drone surveillance, and a thousand other examples of the erosion of individual rights? Things like government environmental protection departments seizing private property and also dictating what activities may occur upon private property? The effective outlawing of the ability to change or modify your own property (game consoles)?
"Totalitarianism" actually seems to rise and fall. I don't buy the argument that it only increases until there is a major revolution, as society seems to advance towards totalitarianism and then roll it back with reforms. For instance, I wouldn't say the government today is nearly as totalitarian as it was in the 1950s. It's worse now than it was in the 1990s, that's for sure.
And the free-market corporatism/totalitarianism today is nothing, nothing compared to what it was in the late 1800s.
And I'd be totally fine with eliminating the DoE. The only thing it seems to do well is administer low-cost student loans, without which I'd have been unable to go to college and get a job that paid them off within 2 years. That doesn't require a department-level organization though.
If Steve Jobs defined the Apple philosophy, how come he got fired in the mid-80s? It appears his philosophy was NOT the dominant one of the Apple II era (else he would have kept his job), and instead was someone else's philosophy. Perhaps Woz and repairability vs. Jobs "junk it when it dies" paradigm.
Jobs has flip-flopped a number of times, depending on which platform he was talking about. When OSX was announced, he was touting the open-source nature of the Darwin kernel as a distinct plus.
Did you listen to the episode? The last 1/3 of the show, occurring after the Daisy discussion was over, was on the topic "So with the interview and its retraction, it's easy to become confused about what happened. We talk to a number of experts who detail what conditions at Foxxcon are really like."
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Have you tried playing Diablo 2 lately? The only thing you can do on it today is spam the 'n' key to clear the neverending spam.
Sure I have. I just play solo or with friends.
Never EVER enter a public area on Diablo 2.
Not to say that recording music is EASY by any means: I've done a handful of studio sessions, and learned that I hate sitting in the studio. It's just significantly easier than producing a AAA title like Diablo 3, where music is just one aspect that needs to be addressed.
Not least because a AAA title often includes a full album's worth of music now!
Ah, ok, so "copyright infringement" and refusing to pay when you owe the money required to pay, breaking EULAs and service agreements and such is now "broken business model."
"I don't want to pay for things that require money to make" is just defying a "broken business model."
Maybe I'm spoiled, but my $50/month Fios connection
You are spoiled! The vast majority of the country has no access to FIOS, and a good chunk of it only has one cable or DSL provider choice. I have a friend whose only options for connectivity is directional wireless.
But with more limited libraries.
"More" limited, but Netflix's US library is extremely limited. In my 30-dvd queue of non-obscure stuff, usually only 4-5 are ever available for streaming.
The online streaming situation sucks. It's horribly broken. A nice example: Game of Thrones
No wonder you didn't log in, trolling so blatantly.
I remember. It was when the CD first came out. The media companies were promising up and down that if we all adopted it and started repurchasing all our music, the price of CDs would quick fail to a few dollars.
Over time, they did fall! Especially as the prices never kept up with inflation.
For everything else such as comedies, dramas, etc. who gives a fuck about "SD" (Standard Definition) quality?
Strangely, one of the movies that I most noticed the resolution increase was with Gran Torino. It'd apply to any movie with sumptuous set design and costuming too, assuming you're into that sort of thing.
Digital *Rental* Mis-Management.. (Yes, intentionally creating a new DRM acronym. =)
Hey now, what's wrong with Digital Restrictions Management? =)
2) Netflix will be gone in 2 years. They can't afford the licensing costs.
I hope Netflix remains as I use it now -- DVD/BR by mail. Online streaming is a very fucked up situation, and I don't see it being resolved for decades. And the speed of ISPs, fiber, etc is the least of the problems.
DRM is the problem. I have HDCP supporting monitors, HDCP support HDMI cables, HDCP supporting hardware, and yet there are still HDCP handshake issues with purchased media
Worse, there are HDCP handshake issues with HDCP-supporting devices, regardless of what media is used. My HD Tivo, PS3, projector, and Monoprice HDMI switcher f' up the handshaking pretty often, resulting in having to switch back and forth between inputs a few times before everything syncs right.
That's why monitors have plateaued at 1080p
30" computer monitors which run at 2560x1600 are somewhat popular.
25"? My PC monitor is 24" and greater than 1080p, and it's just about good enough for 1.5m - 2m away. I wouldn't dream of having a screen so small in a living room,
Oh, how times have changed! :-)
and you know, if they alter the drm they're _fucked_. nobody would be able to sort out the mess of different generations of bluray players being able to play different discs and the mess that would be to consumers(nearing on fraud actually).
I thought that one of the major selling points (to the studios) with Blu-Rays is that the DRM control scheme was updateable on the fly -- it can be done over the Internet... I -thought- that new DRM schemes could be included on the Blu-Ray disc itself, and that every Blu-Ray player is required to be able to update its supported DRM schemes.
IIRC it was shite.
On the contrary, it had the hugest hair-styles of any of the LOTR adaptations: Saruman
Region restrictions serve primarily three purposes:
1) Ensuring that Blu-Ray sales in one region don't compete with theatrical attendance in other regions. Releasing on the same day globally is very expensive, and different countries have different high-periods for movie attendance.
2) Localization, something I'm not a fan of anyway. I'd much rather cultural references fly over my head than have them be removed. That applies to dubbing as well.
3) Enforcing distribution agreements. Sometimes a distributor is not legally or contractually allowed to distribute a movie/show outside of its
That being said, I believe Blu-Rays are actually far more lax with region encoding than DVDs are. There are only three regions for Blu-Rays (as opposed to 7? 9? for DVDs) meaning any particular Blu-Ray will play in a larger area than an equivalent Blu-Ray. Region restrictions are enforced by player software, not hardware, so you'll have less of the "you get 5 region changes" situations than you would have had with DVDs. Also, it's far more likely that a Blu-Ray will be released region-free. All of Paramount's and Universal's titles are region-free, while other studios have differing percentages of titles.
Sadly, DRM is far more onerous, even while region locking has become less of a problem.
The big reason we can't make these sorts of products in the US anymore is that we've outsourced our entire ability to make them, so there's no infrastructure left.
Believe it or not, the way to fix the problem is to create more sweat shops in China.
Actually, believe it or not, the way to fix the problem is not to outsource labor anymore. Have things built by domestic workers and pay the price that costs.
Apple, Samsung, everyone else can get away with it because we've unconsciously decided that worker's rights result in products that cost more than we are willing to pay.
Or wait... huh, would that be incest?
We need suggestions!
Pixar, maybe?
Our worst criminals tend to be strongly socially stunted and fixated only on immediate gratification and immediate consequences.
True, but bankers never even go to jail, let alone get the death penalty.
It sounds like they thought ahead!
McDonald's can also make claims about its sales figures, but that's hardly an argument for the quality of its food.
It could, however, be an argument on the quality of its product, of which food quality is just one part.
I like how we're talking about the activities of a private corporation and somehow you turn the discussion toward how "government is bad, m'kay"?
The article being discussed was about both. There is a concerted effort on the part of corporations to lock down everything and eliminate tinkering, and the effort of the government to tar those who try to tinker anyway.
So, you're going to ignore the ever-more totalitarian government policies and legislation that enables the taking-down of websites and web services without due process, the restrictions on free speech, the loss of basic rights in being scanned & searched at airports, the emergence of domestic civilian drone surveillance, and a thousand other examples of the erosion of individual rights? Things like government environmental protection departments seizing private property and also dictating what activities may occur upon private property? The effective outlawing of the ability to change or modify your own property (game consoles)?
"Totalitarianism" actually seems to rise and fall. I don't buy the argument that it only increases until there is a major revolution, as society seems to advance towards totalitarianism and then roll it back with reforms. For instance, I wouldn't say the government today is nearly as totalitarian as it was in the 1950s. It's worse now than it was in the 1990s, that's for sure.
And the free-market corporatism/totalitarianism today is nothing, nothing compared to what it was in the late 1800s.
And I'd be totally fine with eliminating the DoE. The only thing it seems to do well is administer low-cost student loans, without which I'd have been unable to go to college and get a job that paid them off within 2 years. That doesn't require a department-level organization though.
If Steve Jobs defined the Apple philosophy, how come he got fired in the mid-80s? It appears his philosophy was NOT the dominant one of the Apple II era (else he would have kept his job), and instead was someone else's philosophy. Perhaps Woz and repairability vs. Jobs "junk it when it dies" paradigm.
Jobs has flip-flopped a number of times, depending on which platform he was talking about. When OSX was announced, he was touting the open-source nature of the Darwin kernel as a distinct plus.
Please, your frothing at the mouth defending Apple.
A guy named "macs4all" is an Apple shill? I am shocked, shocked!
Did you listen to the episode? The last 1/3 of the show, occurring after the Daisy discussion was over, was on the topic "So with the interview and its retraction, it's easy to become confused about what happened. We talk to a number of experts who detail what conditions at Foxxcon are really like."