DRM locked goes above and beyond what copyright allows. Apple can say that no one is allowed to buy a repair manual, but they cannot forbid someone who already owns a repair manual from giving it to someone else (as long as no copy is made). The DRM is intended to prevent giving or reselling the manual to anyone else.
Original specifications does not mean the EULA. The specifications means what the product is intended to do. And in the event that companies change their specifications to have exclusions, I would suspect that the courts would weigh in on this. Of course, the companies could just rewrite the laws by buying legislators, but by that's quite a lot more than merely changing some wording on a slip of paper in the box.
Of course. At the moment most DRM is intended as a means to restrict customers from exercising their legal rights to use the product - eliminating fair use, forbidding resale, forbidding time shifting, etc. This is the primary difference between DRM and copy protection.
You can already avoid strict copyright rules in some cases called "fair use". This new rule would seem to extend fair use to cover repairs.
For patents, those just give a limited term monopoly on the right to profit off of an invention. This wouldn't seem to be applicable here since a repair shop is not creating and selling new tractors or phones using someone else's patents.
It means you can't hack a PS4 to become a Linux box, but if the PS4 breaks then you can repair it even if it means you have to defeat some protections. Presumably it also means you can change your Keurig coffee maker to make coffee using third party pods, or so your printer can use refilled cartridges.
This doesn't mean that the manufacturers have to make this easy for you (witness tractor repair).
Also, it's unclear whether or not the DMCA overrides this rule or vice versa; for the courts to figure out.
Even if Apple does collect data, that does not mean we should ignore the warnings from Tim Cook. Maybe it's a good idea if the villains stand up and say "we're out to get you!" so that people took their privacy seriously.
If 3D television didn't catch on, then I doubt VR games will catch on either. There are always the early adopters with disposable income that quickly buy into a new fad but it doesn't sustain itself.
If I had a beefy system, I might try the 3D game, but I really don't see the need to go a step further for a full VR experience. There's really not much point to it that I can see. But if you look at the average PC gamer that won't spend more than $200 for a graphics card and will never bother with absurdity of dual SLI cards, those people aren't going to see the point of wasting money on VR for a handful of games they don't care about.
I don't think it necessarily needs to be highly immersive, however it needs to be much cheaper. You have to start off first with a high end gaming PC, and then spend the equivalent of the cost of a gaming console (viewer plus controls). It's a steep burden for your typical PC gamer.
Or help improve poverty in Central America. Illegal immigration from Mexico has gone down and primarily because its economy has been improving. However illegal immigration from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador has gone up because those economies are bad, the police there are ineffective, and the governments are failing. When most illegal immigrants are willing to endure the extremely hazardous desert crossing, then it's clear that a tougher stance isn't going to be much deterrence.
However, consider that ICE outsources some of its functions to private contractors, and those contractors are incentivized based upon how they are paid. So let's say this phone service is outsourced to a contractor which is paid based upon the number of calls that they follow up on...
I don't remember people eating that junk food in large quantities in the past. Ie, you ate one twinky with lunch as a treat, but then no more junk food for the day. I don't recall much snacking between meals in the past either. Today though, there are doritos at work, high schools have vending machines, college students do late night snack runs, and so forth.
Also they eat too much of the wrong things. This is especially apparent with poorer people because more foods that are high in fat, starches, and sugar tend to be cheaper.
Do a double blind taste test. A lot of people have imagined tastes that don't always hold up when tested. For instance, have a wine tasting with expensive and cheap stuff and see who can determine which is which.
Mexican Coca-Cola tastes better because it's got cane sugar instead of corn syrup. Also in general, formulations of various products vary by the country in which they're made. Ie, try a taste test of kit-kat chocolates from different countries.
Only in the open source all-volunteer army. In the professional world they're called Employee Manuals. In the employed world, you can't go on a loud swearing rant against your coworkers unless you're the CEO, and even then the board will step in and ask you to tone it down.
There are often unpaid beta testers in a lot of areas. Maybe call it limited release or preview release or whatever, but it happens. Remember the preview releases for Windows 8, I don't think you could characterize those testers as merely customers trying to use a finished product early.
That's how religion started. "Be excellent to each other" someone once said. Then everyone listening said "Boo! We want more than that, give us lots of scriptures so we can argue about them endlessly over the centuries!"
And don't forget, they also randomly remove options that used to be accessible from the control panel. The intent seems to be to discourage customization for anyone but a power user willing to spend time googling (binging) for a the relevant registry setting.
Doing things your way requires an adherence to proper design and discipline to maintain this. This is not the Microsoft Way. The Microsoft Way is to get it out fast, and then if a better way is discovered later then the old way and new way can live together side by side.
What about $15 to replace the battery on a $1000 phone that doesn't have a removable battery? That's a bigger issue for me. A vacuum cleaner will easily last a couple of decades, but people are throwing away phones that should be repairable.
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They already switch to ARM for IoT, Intel is really a tiny player in that market.
DRM locked goes above and beyond what copyright allows. Apple can say that no one is allowed to buy a repair manual, but they cannot forbid someone who already owns a repair manual from giving it to someone else (as long as no copy is made). The DRM is intended to prevent giving or reselling the manual to anyone else.
Original specifications does not mean the EULA. The specifications means what the product is intended to do. And in the event that companies change their specifications to have exclusions, I would suspect that the courts would weigh in on this. Of course, the companies could just rewrite the laws by buying legislators, but by that's quite a lot more than merely changing some wording on a slip of paper in the box.
Of course. At the moment most DRM is intended as a means to restrict customers from exercising their legal rights to use the product - eliminating fair use, forbidding resale, forbidding time shifting, etc. This is the primary difference between DRM and copy protection.
You can already avoid strict copyright rules in some cases called "fair use". This new rule would seem to extend fair use to cover repairs.
For patents, those just give a limited term monopoly on the right to profit off of an invention. This wouldn't seem to be applicable here since a repair shop is not creating and selling new tractors or phones using someone else's patents.
It means you can't hack a PS4 to become a Linux box, but if the PS4 breaks then you can repair it even if it means you have to defeat some protections. Presumably it also means you can change your Keurig coffee maker to make coffee using third party pods, or so your printer can use refilled cartridges.
This doesn't mean that the manufacturers have to make this easy for you (witness tractor repair).
Also, it's unclear whether or not the DMCA overrides this rule or vice versa; for the courts to figure out.
Even if Apple does collect data, that does not mean we should ignore the warnings from Tim Cook. Maybe it's a good idea if the villains stand up and say "we're out to get you!" so that people took their privacy seriously.
If 3D television didn't catch on, then I doubt VR games will catch on either. There are always the early adopters with disposable income that quickly buy into a new fad but it doesn't sustain itself.
If I had a beefy system, I might try the 3D game, but I really don't see the need to go a step further for a full VR experience. There's really not much point to it that I can see. But if you look at the average PC gamer that won't spend more than $200 for a graphics card and will never bother with absurdity of dual SLI cards, those people aren't going to see the point of wasting money on VR for a handful of games they don't care about.
I don't think it necessarily needs to be highly immersive, however it needs to be much cheaper. You have to start off first with a high end gaming PC, and then spend the equivalent of the cost of a gaming console (viewer plus controls). It's a steep burden for your typical PC gamer.
Or help improve poverty in Central America. Illegal immigration from Mexico has gone down and primarily because its economy has been improving. However illegal immigration from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador has gone up because those economies are bad, the police there are ineffective, and the governments are failing. When most illegal immigrants are willing to endure the extremely hazardous desert crossing, then it's clear that a tougher stance isn't going to be much deterrence.
However, consider that ICE outsources some of its functions to private contractors, and those contractors are incentivized based upon how they are paid. So let's say this phone service is outsourced to a contractor which is paid based upon the number of calls that they follow up on...
I don't remember people eating that junk food in large quantities in the past. Ie, you ate one twinky with lunch as a treat, but then no more junk food for the day. I don't recall much snacking between meals in the past either. Today though, there are doritos at work, high schools have vending machines, college students do late night snack runs, and so forth.
Also they eat too much of the wrong things. This is especially apparent with poorer people because more foods that are high in fat, starches, and sugar tend to be cheaper.
Probably because you're never taken dog food and heated it up in the skillet like you do with canned goods meant for humans?
Do a double blind taste test. A lot of people have imagined tastes that don't always hold up when tested. For instance, have a wine tasting with expensive and cheap stuff and see who can determine which is which.
Mexican Coca-Cola tastes better because it's got cane sugar instead of corn syrup. Also in general, formulations of various products vary by the country in which they're made. Ie, try a taste test of kit-kat chocolates from different countries.
$120/month vs $10/month?
Only in the open source all-volunteer army. In the professional world they're called Employee Manuals. In the employed world, you can't go on a loud swearing rant against your coworkers unless you're the CEO, and even then the board will step in and ask you to tone it down.
There are often unpaid beta testers in a lot of areas. Maybe call it limited release or preview release or whatever, but it happens. Remember the preview releases for Windows 8, I don't think you could characterize those testers as merely customers trying to use a finished product early.
That's how religion started. "Be excellent to each other" someone once said. Then everyone listening said "Boo! We want more than that, give us lots of scriptures so we can argue about them endlessly over the centuries!"
1B) Dump the unpaid Beta Testers and pass it on to unsuspecting customers.
And don't forget, they also randomly remove options that used to be accessible from the control panel. The intent seems to be to discourage customization for anyone but a power user willing to spend time googling (binging) for a the relevant registry setting.
Doing things your way requires an adherence to proper design and discipline to maintain this. This is not the Microsoft Way. The Microsoft Way is to get it out fast, and then if a better way is discovered later then the old way and new way can live together side by side.
What about $15 to replace the battery on a $1000 phone that doesn't have a removable battery? That's a bigger issue for me. A vacuum cleaner will easily last a couple of decades, but people are throwing away phones that should be repairable.
This probably won't work for me, since I keep my eyes closed while at work.
Pouring with slush? Sounds like Summer is nearly there!