Apple's DRM Fairplay is rather fair - at least compared to other DRMs.
That's like saying the Nazi work camps were better than the death camps. They were still concentration camps. (As were the American camps for Japanese-Americans, but that's a different story.)
MPAA, is that the organization which represents the movie studios that are constantly copying the plots etc. of each other? The "let's make a James Bond movie with Vin Diesel and call it XxX" guys?
Bah.
What next, will they have NAMBLA come and tell the kids their interpretation of age-of-consent laws? How about letting the KKK educate the kids about how laws regarding blacks should be?
In summary, why aren't more projects seeing the possibilities of web-derived methods? HTML was designed to be efficient, fast, low bandwidth, low processing... What part of the picture am I missing?
The part where you hack your way around the statelessness of HTTP using sessions and cookies.
The part where you pray the user doesn't use the back-button or submit the same form multiple times, since that screws with the application state.
The part where you write Javascript-generating code to substitute the contents of a select based on some other state change.
The part where you find some cool feature of CSS2.1 to get the look you want, and discover only Opera supports it.
A much better analogy is a car, and guess what, you do take classes to use a car. And after that education you can drive most any car, since they have a mostly standardized interface, something computers don't unless you want to declare Windows to be a standard.
In other words, a car is a computer running Windows. A computer running Linux is like a four-wheel motorcycle: It can get places the car cannot, but has a different interface and is less comfortable to the user.
(Thanks for your contribution to the ongoing demonstration of how cars suck as an analogy for almost anything.)
Why do people believe this fallacy? The WTO's members are countries, not corporations. To the extent they work to further corporate growth it's simply because coroporations are the employers of their voters.
Ah, you're one of those. The guys that failed reading comprehension when studying Darwin.
You see, it's not the strongest that survive, but the most adaptable. That's why the American car industry almost went under because they thought it was sufficient to be a U.S. brand to sell cars, but the buyers suddenly wanted quality and economy instead, and the Japanese manufacturers provided.
Recall a little war of independence back in the 18th century? You know, when a certain British colony dared to oppose the "alpha male of the world tribe"? And got away with it simply because the French said "non" when asked to help the British against the "terrorists"?
If more authority-loving people like you were around back then, the War of Independence would have been called "The damp squib" instead, and your current head of state would have been Queen Elizabeth II. And that probably would have been a good thing.
Well, since there already is an open-source VM out there, have you tried porting it to your platform of choice? No? Wouldn't that hold for Sun's implementation too if that was released OSS? There won't be any ports if noone does the porting.
Er, there are already server emulators for Ultima Online at least, and rumored for Dark Age of Camelot as well. Plenty of unofficial UO shards all over the place using emulators.
The free market works like the wild kingdom, because it works.
Except there is no such thing as the free market. It's a theoretical construct where an infinite number of customers chooses among an infinite number of suppliers, all of which (by necessity) produces at cost.
As long as a company makes any profit, it operates in a non-free market.
In the real world, things are regulated - and for good reasons, too. Unless you want to start paying "protection fees" to the police or armed forces.
I gotta think that Java operates at a loss for them,... unless they make money from licensing, compatibility testing, training, certification, conferences etc.
What IBM is doing wrt. Sun's Java implementation is akin to people going to AT&T and asking them to OS their C implementation instead of writing their own, e.g. GCC.
Why can't people throw resources onto the Kaffe project instead?
However, Java's OOP is a little limited in one aspect: it doesn't allow multiple inheritance.... otherwise known as schizophrenia. MI isn't central to OO, both Smalltalk and C# do without it too. So perhaps it's MI that's the bad idea?
Using nested classes as delegates you can accomplish nearly anything you would want to use MI for anyway.
Oh my god, I spent $5000 on a humongous television and now my expensive television is being used to display commercials I don't want to watch and I can't do anything about it?
Your submission to "Internet allegories that don't fit at all" has been registered. Your reward is to examine the differences in content distribution technologies between broadcasting and Internet especially as it relates to bandwidth.
The problem is that my not buying Pink's latest is that the record company is coing to "count" my non-purchase as a loss to "piracy". And they are going to count my purchase of Let It Be... Naked (which uses Muck-ro-vision) as an argument that copy-protected CDs sell.
It's a win-win scenario for them in their argumentation.
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Apple's DRM Fairplay is rather fair - at least compared to other DRMs.
That's like saying the Nazi work camps were better than the death camps. They were still concentration camps. (As were the American camps for Japanese-Americans, but that's a different story.)
MPAA, is that the organization which represents the movie studios that are constantly copying the plots etc. of each other? The "let's make a James Bond movie with Vin Diesel and call it XxX" guys?
Bah.
What next, will they have NAMBLA come and tell the kids their interpretation of age-of-consent laws? How about letting the KKK educate the kids about how laws regarding blacks should be?
Diplomacy -- kinda like "Risk"
EVILDOER!
"The Beatles -- kinda like Herman's Hermits"
In summary, why aren't more projects seeing the possibilities of web-derived methods? HTML was designed to be efficient, fast, low bandwidth, low processing... What part of the picture am I missing?
The part where you hack your way around the statelessness of HTTP using sessions and cookies.
The part where you pray the user doesn't use the back-button or submit the same form multiple times, since that screws with the application state.
The part where you write Javascript-generating code to substitute the contents of a select based on some other state change.
The part where you find some cool feature of CSS2.1 to get the look you want, and discover only Opera supports it.
Because that's the way most open source software works.
And that's the reason it will always play second fiddle to commercial consumer software.
A much better analogy is a car, and guess what, you do take classes to use a car.
And after that education you can drive most any car, since they have a mostly standardized interface, something computers don't unless you want to declare Windows to be a standard.
In other words, a car is a computer running Windows. A computer running Linux is like a four-wheel motorcycle: It can get places the car cannot, but has a different interface and is less comfortable to the user.
(Thanks for your contribution to the ongoing demonstration of how cars suck as an analogy for almost anything.)
3. Java is dead.
You left out a step where IBM, Oracle, Borland, BEA - and all the other companies who base more of their business on Java than Sun - also abandon it.
And that is not very likely.
but also give it to an open standard committee so it can grow.
Oh you mean just like Larry Wall didn't with Perl and Guido van Rossum didn't with Python? Now, are those two languages dead?
But they exist to further corporate growth
Why do people believe this fallacy? The WTO's members are countries, not corporations. To the extent they work to further corporate growth it's simply because coroporations are the employers of their voters.
That's the way of nature. The strongest survive.
Ah, you're one of those. The guys that failed reading comprehension when studying Darwin.
You see, it's not the strongest that survive, but the most adaptable. That's why the American car industry almost went under because they thought it was sufficient to be a U.S. brand to sell cars, but the buyers suddenly wanted quality and economy instead, and the Japanese manufacturers provided.
Recall a little war of independence back in the 18th century? You know, when a certain British colony dared to oppose the "alpha male of the world tribe"? And got away with it simply because the French said "non" when asked to help the British against the "terrorists"?
If more authority-loving people like you were around back then, the War of Independence would have been called "The damp squib" instead, and your current head of state would have been Queen Elizabeth II. And that probably would have been a good thing.
Well, since there already is an open-source VM out there, have you tried porting it to your platform of choice? No? Wouldn't that hold for Sun's implementation too if that was released OSS? There won't be any ports if noone does the porting.
Er, there are already server emulators for Ultima Online at least, and rumored for Dark Age of Camelot as well. Plenty of unofficial UO shards all over the place using emulators.
... and another idiot is already posting a link to the auction on Slashdot... :)
Er, in both Java and .Net the virtual machine usually compiles to native code, which is what actually runs.
Yes, you can force interpreted mode instead, but why would you ever want to other than to stroke some "slowness" misconception?
The free market works like the wild kingdom, because it works.
Except there is no such thing as the free market. It's a theoretical construct where an infinite number of customers chooses among an infinite number of suppliers, all of which (by necessity) produces at cost.
As long as a company makes any profit, it operates in a non-free market.
In the real world, things are regulated - and for good reasons, too. Unless you want to start paying "protection fees" to the police or armed forces.
he feels the world has moved on and PostScript is no longer the approach he would favor for a GUI system.
:)
Well, he'd better not take a look at the Java2D API, then, with its strokes and paths and translations and so on...
I gotta think that Java operates at a loss for them, ... unless they make money from licensing, compatibility testing, training, certification, conferences etc.
Which they do.
This hasn't been a problem with C
Funny you should mention C.
What IBM is doing wrt. Sun's Java implementation is akin to people going to AT&T and asking them to OS their C implementation instead of writing their own, e.g. GCC.
Why can't people throw resources onto the Kaffe project instead?
However, the father who never liked this child wanted to push their own JIT upon the people.
Nonsense, the JIT shipped with the Sun JRE was from Symantec.
Last I remember the internet was created here in the USA.
That is about as relevant to its control as if Germany got to decide about cars just because they were invented there.
The origin of technology does not give a grant to decide over that technology - except for that patent thing of course.
However, Java's OOP is a little limited in one aspect: it doesn't allow multiple inheritance. ... otherwise known as schizophrenia. MI isn't central to OO, both Smalltalk and C# do without it too. So perhaps it's MI that's the bad idea?
Using nested classes as delegates you can accomplish nearly anything you would want to use MI for anyway.
He blasts the importation of illegal drugs and would sterilize all dopers (as well as illegal immigrants.)
:)
While liberals will only sterilize their needles.
I assume Mr. Hamburg has no problem with domestically produced illegal drugs then?
Oh my god, I spent $5000 on a humongous television and now my expensive television is being used to display commercials I don't want to watch and I can't do anything about it?
Your submission to "Internet allegories that don't fit at all" has been registered. Your reward is to examine the differences in content distribution technologies between broadcasting and Internet especially as it relates to bandwidth.
Jon of DeCSS fame has already done this.
Yes, but you need to use Windows to get the "liberated" file; that might be a hurdle for some...
The problem is that my not buying Pink's latest is that the record company is coing to "count" my non-purchase as a loss to "piracy". And they are going to count my purchase of Let It Be... Naked (which uses Muck-ro-vision) as an argument that copy-protected CDs sell.
It's a win-win scenario for them in their argumentation.