You did not have to install the firmware that removed the OtherOS feature if Linux support was that important to you. Granted, if you did not you would no longer be able to access the PS Network, but that is a service you do not own anyway.
Yes, it was easier for Palm to violate its agreement with the USB-IF and exploit Apple's sync software implemented in iTunes than to actually make the fscing effort to write their own sync software that read the music files and XML that any program has access to, or make user instructions how you could copy files from the music folders.
But I wonder what the old Palm would have said if e.g. Sony had made a device that pretended to be a PalmOS device and talked to their HotSync software...
I read a report about it where Alexander Haig was the only cabinet member that wanted to take Britain's side in the conflict. However, if Wikipedia is correct, that is slightly inaccurate:
"The USA provided political support voting the UN resolution 502 requesting the departure of Argentine troops. They also discreetly provided the United Kingdom with military equipment ranging from submarine detectors to the latest missiles."
Not too aware of the "Liber" part of "Liberal" are you?
US conservatives are another bunch, though - even going so far as to support the arguments of the right-wing military junta of Argentina against its NATO ally the U.K. in the Falklands war.
The biggest reason is the distance to cell towers when you are 30,000 feet above ground.
The cell phones would be sending at max power to talk with those distant towers. At the speed of an airplane, multiple towers would get the phone's weak requests to connect, and would each set aside a "slot" while waiting for the phone to complete handshake, which might never complete.
Yeah, complaining that making hardware nullifies the IT company "cred" should also then be applied to Sun and IBM which suddenly cease to be "IT companies".
That was exactly what doomed Smalltalk: ParcPlace et al charged an arm and a leg for the privilege of writing Smalltalk, leaving free languages to thrive instead.
How was it a scam? At some point Sony decided that too many people were exploiting the OtherOS feature for piracy, and made people choose between using the PS3 for Linux OR for games by disabling the feature in a firmware update the user could choose not to install, even adding a stern warning as part of the upgrade process.
I am sure they considered the effect of the decision on piracy numbers to be worth the nerd rage directed at them from the minority running Linux. (Who still had that option provided they gave up using services that required the firmware upgrade).
Yes, but they run Linux, and probably continue to do so. The removal of the OtherOS feature was an option, PS3s dedicated to running as a Linux cluster have no reason to contact the PS Network.
The XBox succeeded because Microsoft threw money at it like a pyromaniac throwing gasoline on a fire. They bought Bungie, Rare and other studios that were developing for other consoles, leading to some launch titles that were hastily ported from their original target platform (a process they repeated with the 360: Kameo was originally targeted at the Nintendo Gamecube).
Office and Windows paid for the XBox and 360, like they pay for everything Microsoft does in other markets.
Where is there any connection between the Shia Iranian government, and the sternly (as in "we hate the Shia") sunni terrorists of Al-Qaeda? "Is this another of those "WMDs in Iraq" things you people pull to justify the failed attempts at neo-colonialism?
Well, the same could be said for the death penalty (common in countries lacking human rights).
Also, "artistic control of your work" seems something the artist these days have to wrestle from the greedy hands of the industry pretending to look after them.
You know there is a reason "classic" and "in the public domain" often go together? Why stages around the world play Romeo and Juliet rather than modern plays? Why you are more likely to hear Beethoven at a symphony concert than a modern composition?
Copyright is supposed to be a limited monopoly granted bu the State before the work enters the public domain and becomes part of the shared culture. But that is insufficient for the entertainment industries which could not care less for the artistic value, only the commercial revenue generated by sales and licensing.
If copyright disappeared tomorrow, works of art would still be made by people with the desire, as they are by the 90% of artists who are not in the stables of the entertainment industry. But we would lose the "focus group" directed, advertised-to-death purely commercial ventures.
Between 9/11/2001 and 10/11/2001, as many Americans died in traffic as died in the terrorist attacks. Why was there no War on Traffic Deaths and invasion of Detroit following?
And the "War on Terror" involved invading two countries, disrupting their despotic but stable governments, raising a puppet government and sending the countries into a state of chaos, with civilian deaths caused by both sides, no hope of defeating the guerillas (which hardly ever is done), and frankly no less terrorists in total.
The only victor is the military-industrial complex and greedy contractor firms. Just like the scanners which conveniently were sold to the TSA by a company that happen to have hired one of the ex-TSA decision makers...
You are acting as if art and creations were not made before copyright law came into being...
You are aware that only a small fraction of the world's musicians, authors etc. actually can make a living off their art? IIRC around 1% of bands get a recording contract, perhaps 10% of authors get published etc. I cannot see the desire to create (among the majority) going away just because copyright would go away: It's not doing anything for them right now anyway. In fact it is hindering them since they cannot build on the works of others in their own art, the protections basically prevents modern creations from ever becoming parts of the cultural heritage (which largely consists of out-of-copyright works if you start looking).
The only "system" the current copyright laws protect is the industry built up around that fraction of artists that are commercially viable. And entertainment industry exploiting laws created to incite artists to create works of culture that would enter the common "pool".
Does a theater company staging "Romeo and Juliet" feel they are "stealing" from Shakespeare? Why are they staging an old play instead of a more modern one? Because industries demand royalties for the "intellectual product" that a modern play would count as.
How can you twist "copyright is not theft" into "what if there was no copyright"? Copyright exists, and it does protect the creators, if they decide to spend the resources going after those that leech off their works instead of trying to make something that enough people are willing to pay for. Nobody owes you a success in business.
But to the individual developer a pirate is no more a paying customer than a subsistence farmer in Kenya with no computer, they contribute 0 to the income. Just like someone buying a book in a secondhand store, or someone picking up a discarded newspaper or magazine instead of buying a new one.
what percentage of your customers who are paying for your games are doing so because they actually want to support you
Probably zero. But that does not matter. People buy stuff out of self interest - what product will interest/help/entertain ME? The creator/manufacturer succeeds if they can fill that need.
Basing your business on some naive assumption that there are people out there who are just yearning to give you their money out of some other desire is taking the Interstate straight to failure. You find such dreamers on the out-takes on X Factor, teens who thought they were the next best thing but were laughed out the door, their dreams crushed...
Unlicensed copying of copyrighted works is not the same as illegal acquisition of physical property in a court of law. Why should it be so outside of it?
Life in an institution is more expensive and harming to the permanently crippled elderly than euthanasia.
Not everything civilized society does is measured against cost. Tolkien said it well:
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.
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Well, that is the risk you run when you choose barbaric anarchy (Android) over modern civilization (iOS). :)
You did not have to install the firmware that removed the OtherOS feature if Linux support was that important to you. Granted, if you did not you would no longer be able to access the PS Network, but that is a service you do not own anyway.
Yes, it was easier for Palm to violate its agreement with the USB-IF and exploit Apple's sync software implemented in iTunes than to actually make the fscing effort to write their own sync software that read the music files and XML that any program has access to, or make user instructions how you could copy files from the music folders.
But I wonder what the old Palm would have said if e.g. Sony had made a device that pretended to be a PalmOS device and talked to their HotSync software...
Yeah, which was why I wrote "conservatives".
I read a report about it where Alexander Haig was the only cabinet member that wanted to take Britain's side in the conflict. However, if Wikipedia is correct, that is slightly inaccurate:
"The USA provided political support voting the UN resolution 502 requesting the departure of Argentine troops. They also discreetly provided the United Kingdom with military equipment ranging from submarine detectors to the latest missiles."
Not too aware of the "Liber" part of "Liberal" are you?
US conservatives are another bunch, though - even going so far as to support the arguments of the right-wing military junta of Argentina against its NATO ally the U.K. in the Falklands war.
The biggest reason is the distance to cell towers when you are 30,000 feet above ground.
The cell phones would be sending at max power to talk with those distant towers. At the speed of an airplane, multiple towers would get the phone's weak requests to connect, and would each set aside a "slot" while waiting for the phone to complete handshake, which might never complete.
Yeah, complaining that making hardware nullifies the IT company "cred" should also then be applied to Sun and IBM which suddenly cease to be "IT companies".
That was exactly what doomed Smalltalk: ParcPlace et al charged an arm and a leg for the privilege of writing Smalltalk, leaving free languages to thrive instead.
That would be the medi*slap*
They both are! With Berlin and London, respectively! :)
How was it a scam? At some point Sony decided that too many people were exploiting the OtherOS feature for piracy, and made people choose between using the PS3 for Linux OR for games by disabling the feature in a firmware update the user could choose not to install, even adding a stern warning as part of the upgrade process.
I am sure they considered the effect of the decision on piracy numbers to be worth the nerd rage directed at them from the minority running Linux. (Who still had that option provided they gave up using services that required the firmware upgrade).
Yes, but they run Linux, and probably continue to do so. The removal of the OtherOS feature was an option, PS3s dedicated to running as a Linux cluster have no reason to contact the PS Network.
That's about as stupid an argument as if you argued that Germany should control car manufacturing or Italy should control radio.
The XBox succeeded because Microsoft threw money at it like a pyromaniac throwing gasoline on a fire. They bought Bungie, Rare and other studios that were developing for other consoles, leading to some launch titles that were hastily ported from their original target platform (a process they repeated with the 360: Kameo was originally targeted at the Nintendo Gamecube).
Office and Windows paid for the XBox and 360, like they pay for everything Microsoft does in other markets.
Where is there any connection between the Shia Iranian government, and the sternly (as in "we hate the Shia") sunni terrorists of Al-Qaeda? "Is this another of those "WMDs in Iraq" things you people pull to justify the failed attempts at neo-colonialism?
Well, the same could be said for the death penalty (common in countries lacking human rights).
Also, "artistic control of your work" seems something the artist these days have to wrestle from the greedy hands of the industry pretending to look after them.
You know there is a reason "classic" and "in the public domain" often go together? Why stages around the world play Romeo and Juliet rather than modern plays? Why you are more likely to hear Beethoven at a symphony concert than a modern composition?
Copyright is supposed to be a limited monopoly granted bu the State before the work enters the public domain and becomes part of the shared culture. But that is insufficient for the entertainment industries which could not care less for the artistic value, only the commercial revenue generated by sales and licensing.
If copyright disappeared tomorrow, works of art would still be made by people with the desire, as they are by the 90% of artists who are not in the stables of the entertainment industry. But we would lose the "focus group" directed, advertised-to-death purely commercial ventures.
I think his illness is referred to as "bipolar disease" which is related to manic depression but not the same.
Between 9/11/2001 and 10/11/2001, as many Americans died in traffic as died in the terrorist attacks. Why was there no War on Traffic Deaths and invasion of Detroit following?
And the "War on Terror" involved invading two countries, disrupting their despotic but stable governments, raising a puppet government and sending the countries into a state of chaos, with civilian deaths caused by both sides, no hope of defeating the guerillas (which hardly ever is done), and frankly no less terrorists in total.
The only victor is the military-industrial complex and greedy contractor firms. Just like the scanners which conveniently were sold to the TSA by a company that happen to have hired one of the ex-TSA decision makers...
You are acting as if art and creations were not made before copyright law came into being...
You are aware that only a small fraction of the world's musicians, authors etc. actually can make a living off their art? IIRC around 1% of bands get a recording contract, perhaps 10% of authors get published etc. I cannot see the desire to create (among the majority) going away just because copyright would go away: It's not doing anything for them right now anyway. In fact it is hindering them since they cannot build on the works of others in their own art, the protections basically prevents modern creations from ever becoming parts of the cultural heritage (which largely consists of out-of-copyright works if you start looking).
The only "system" the current copyright laws protect is the industry built up around that fraction of artists that are commercially viable. And entertainment industry exploiting laws created to incite artists to create works of culture that would enter the common "pool".
Does a theater company staging "Romeo and Juliet" feel they are "stealing" from Shakespeare? Why are they staging an old play instead of a more modern one? Because industries demand royalties for the "intellectual product" that a modern play would count as.
And so the Bard abides.
How can you twist "copyright is not theft" into "what if there was no copyright"? Copyright exists, and it does protect the creators, if they decide to spend the resources going after those that leech off their works instead of trying to make something that enough people are willing to pay for. Nobody owes you a success in business.
But to the individual developer a pirate is no more a paying customer than a subsistence farmer in Kenya with no computer, they contribute 0 to the income. Just like someone buying a book in a secondhand store, or someone picking up a discarded newspaper or magazine instead of buying a new one.
what percentage of your customers who are paying for your games are doing so because they actually want to support you
Probably zero. But that does not matter. People buy stuff out of self interest - what product will interest/help/entertain ME? The creator/manufacturer succeeds if they can fill that need.
Basing your business on some naive assumption that there are people out there who are just yearning to give you their money out of some other desire is taking the Interstate straight to failure. You find such dreamers on the out-takes on X Factor, teens who thought they were the next best thing but were laughed out the door, their dreams crushed...
Unlicensed copying of copyrighted works is not the same as illegal acquisition of physical property in a court of law. Why should it be so outside of it?
If the Government taxes you by mistake, it can give you back the money.
If it kill you by mistake - well, you get the picture I hope.
Yeah, but they grant themselves a license to do so in the TOS... or rather the TOS say that you the copyright holder grants it to them of course.
Sooo... should we start sending speeding tickets to random car owners to discourage speeding?
Life in an institution is more expensive and harming to the permanently crippled elderly than euthanasia.
Not everything civilized society does is measured against cost. Tolkien said it well:
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.