If import protections didn't exist, the publishers would have a straight choice between losing their developed-world profits by selling at developing-world rates, or losing their developing-world profits by selling at developed-world rates. The big money's in the developed word, so if we were to ban import protection on IP works, education in the developing world would suffer.
Not if we make their IP protection contingent on them support the developing world in spite of the grey market leakage.
Hmm. So maybe we should region code labor. Anything produced at a rate of pay lower than low end typical wages for the same work in a given country cannot be sold in that country.
Of course, we'll need a global labor union. But that will be a snap to organize, and should not have any unintended bad effects.
Unfortunately, I think the road we are headed down will demonstrate your point in an unfortunate way.
Already there are corps attempting to put the kind of IP protection into the fashion industry that music, movies and books "enjoy". There has been an attempt by a housing developer to add a clause that they receive compensation upon resale of the properties. Etc.
I used to think Spider Robinson's Melancholy Elephants was an insightful but somewhat exaggerated parable for what our future would bring.
I am now beginning to think that within my lifetime, we will see a society that takes the same ridiculous stance that story describes musical copyright as having reached on nearly every field of creative endeavor.
Makes me sad for my son. ALthough maybe the likely backlash will improve things within HIS lifetime.
What if you loaned someone your mathematica disk, they loaded the program, ran their one problem, and deleted it after that (say, because they didn't typically use software like that and didn't want it filling up their drive).
Same net result. Would you consider that a different case?
What if they downloaded a cracked version instead?
I've seen some adult male maine coon cats that were not particularly overweight and were substantially more than 8kg. I recall one at about 11, quite capable of jumping to a surface 6 feet off the floor.
My mom also had a normal tabby that was so round she was basically unable to lick her own belly, and was only about 4kg.
It's not casual speech though, it's a marketing claim, and as such, is formed of the usual carefully chose weasel words.
All existing tablets are "no thicker than a sheet of glass". If the glass is the sheet from your glass coffee table, a fairly common type of glass sheet.
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Different possum. The owls would have trouble with these. We have large owls around where I live, and they don't touch the possums.
Aussie possums:
http://www.google.com/images?q=aussie+possum&oe=utf-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1908&bih=1040
American possums:
http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&biw=1908&bih=1040&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=american+possum&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
99.99999%
Not 98%.
Costco, Starbucks and Trader Joes are all companies I am aware of that have significantly better compensation/benefit packages than their competition.
I do not recall seeing news of any shareholder lawsuits against any of them. Not sure that Costco or TJs is publicly traded though.
So add a deduction under the law that exempts income invested back into businesses in Washington state that employ residents of the state.
Then surely they'll drop their opposition.
And you don't have to do the HDCP handshake first.
I hate it when they turn purple and green before they start.
Or laptop or desktop PC, or monitor, or DVD player . . .
Well, they're pretty bland and crunchy without it.
RAW DSLR pics, exactly what I was about to post, with the addition of 300-400 GB of lossless compressed music (legally ripped from CDs I own).
Between photos and music, I easily fill a TB drive without illicit material.
And My SLR is only a 10MP model, and I only have about 750 albums.
You're both right.
He said "a" three year old, and he's right. Mine learned immediately to handle disk at age 3. So there is (was) one.
However, he's certainly not typical. Not a single one of his friends at that age (nor almost any of my adult friends) was to be trusted with a DVD.
If import protections didn't exist, the publishers would have a straight choice between losing their developed-world profits by selling at developing-world rates, or losing their developing-world profits by selling at developed-world rates. The big money's in the developed word, so if we were to ban import protection on IP works, education in the developing world would suffer.
Not if we make their IP protection contingent on them support the developing world in spite of the grey market leakage.
Hmm. So maybe we should region code labor. Anything produced at a rate of pay lower than low end typical wages for the same work in a given country cannot be sold in that country.
Of course, we'll need a global labor union. But that will be a snap to organize, and should not have any unintended bad effects.
Unfortunately, I think the road we are headed down will demonstrate your point in an unfortunate way.
Already there are corps attempting to put the kind of IP protection into the fashion industry that music, movies and books "enjoy". There has been an attempt by a housing developer to add a clause that they receive compensation upon resale of the properties. Etc.
I used to think Spider Robinson's Melancholy Elephants was an insightful but somewhat exaggerated parable for what our future would bring.
I am now beginning to think that within my lifetime, we will see a society that takes the same ridiculous stance that story describes musical copyright as having reached on nearly every field of creative endeavor.
Makes me sad for my son. ALthough maybe the likely backlash will improve things within HIS lifetime.
If you say different, you have declared Uwe Bolle's movies to have a non-negative value, which is plainly false.
Math + psychology + game theory.
Not really a standalone field of science.
What if you loaned someone your mathematica disk, they loaded the program, ran their one problem, and deleted it after that (say, because they didn't typically use software like that and didn't want it filling up their drive).
Same net result. Would you consider that a different case?
What if they downloaded a cracked version instead?
None is overstating it, but MS does put a lot more into R&D:
http://gizmodo.com/5486798/research-and-development-apple-vs-microsoft-vs-sony
No, it tripped at the top of a stepp hill . . .
I've seen some adult male maine coon cats that were not particularly overweight and were substantially more than 8kg. I recall one at about 11, quite capable of jumping to a surface 6 feet off the floor.
My mom also had a normal tabby that was so round she was basically unable to lick her own belly, and was only about 4kg.
First really good example.
It's not casual speech though, it's a marketing claim, and as such, is formed of the usual carefully chose weasel words.
All existing tablets are "no thicker than a sheet of glass". If the glass is the sheet from your glass coffee table, a fairly common type of glass sheet.
It is the master key from which all others are generated.
So if we drop this into Mount Doom, the evil of HDCP will be banished forever?
So if I download an MP3 of a song, it's not stealing as long as I acknowledge I did not create the song?
Sense 2 pretty plainly applies to taking credit for the work of another. Appropriate is not the same thing as "make a copy of".
Exactly. This is why the word "or" appears in B.
For GP to be correct it would read A) . . . or; B). . . or; C)
Anyone who thinks otherwise needs to explain why the RIAA have not had criminal charges brought against a single downloader.
Quite a few DVI equipped monitors/TVs/projectors from 2003 onward were also HDCP compliant. It only became mandatory for HDMI.
I intentionally avoided laptops with BluRay drives and TPM.
Lots of people don't like the prequels, but that's not really relevant.