The whole reason that music went DRM free is because the actual producers/distributors of the music realized just how much power they had handed Apple.
. ..when they required Apple to apply DRM in the first place (which was the only reason it had ever had it).
Your point about books highlights the issue - convenience. This, coupled with price (actually value) is the whole issue. Music is routinely copied as they charge far too much and make it inconvenient (DRM) compared to the downloadable free stuff. And, as you say, newspapers are not part of this conversation.
Movies are inconvenient to download due to their size, and really, $10-15 for a DVD is (IMO) a pretty reasonable value. So downloading is only an issue with the portion of the population without as much disposable income (teens and twenty somethings), who were never customers in the first place because of that lack of income.
Books, as you say, are not at all convenient in a digital form, as that is not how 99% of the format's consumer want them, and you can't easily "copy" a paper book. As soon as books become a mainstream digital product, though, you will see their "piracy" problem zoom right past musics in ubiquity, because the files sizes will be even smaller, there is no "compression quality" issue (can I read it? Then it is full quality), and the publishing industry will sink like a stone. As much as people trade and share music, with books, it is even more prevalent. Virtually everyone hands books down to a friend or relative, often without the expectation they will be returned (unlike CDs or DVDs), so when it is just forwarding a copy, it will only grow.
While that is true, it ignores some facts. Products designed in the first half of the last century did not benefit from the sort of design and analysis tools that allow corps to engineer something to several nines for an expected time to failure like they can now.
Consequently, product designers often used seat of the pants over-engineering to be sure the product would not fail early and give the company a bad rep. Consequently, there were a lot of appliances and such that were pretty damn robust.
I have a GE hand mixer that my mom got in 1961 that has been used weekly or monthly my entire life and still is completely functional. To this day I associate the smell of ozone with baking because of it.
God I hope you're right. Whatever I may think of MS' software, it is certainly better than SAP enterprise crap. Time charging, purchasing, expense reports, etc. all take approximately 5 times as long as the merely tedious manual and excel process we used to have.
Oh, and the Enterprise was explicitly stated in TOS to be one of "only twelve like her in the fleet", and most definitely one of Starfleet's flagships. And a heavy cruiser to boot. Don't know where you get the frigate characterization, or the idea that Kirk was not considered one of the most capable commanders.
In this movie it was like two elephants were having sex on top of the camera.
Since this is slashdot, I do feel compelled to point out that elephants are actually somewhat stationary during sex, as the male has a muscle which moves his penis back and forth for him, as the normal humping action used by most mammals is somewhat out of the question with their mass. So unless the camera were strapped to the male elephant's penis (rule 33?), your analogy needs some work.
Err, these things do not happen sanity-based fleets.
Is that an apt description of a fleet which has just been partially wiped out by an overwhelmingly superior adversary, where, in the opinion of the C.O. doing the promoting, the ensign in question embodies all the traits sorely lacking in the typical senior officers who have come out of their academy?
This is actually one of the few items in the movie that somewhat followed canon, that Kirk was a sort of command prodigy who advanced very quickly for his years. Just happened quicker here because of the volatility of the situation.
At bare minimum, this Spock is prideful, even BEFORE anything serious alters "his" world. I don't think TOS Spock ever showed that trait.
I don't know. 1) He seemed peeved when the guardian told him he had limited understanding; 2) Kirk certainly used his tweaked pride to get him to build the memory circuit in that same episode; 3) He frequently made remarks to Kirk and McCoy implying pride at not being human.
No, you are fully allowed to be pissed. It's an unfortunate situation for you, because you won't ever get the Star Trek movie you want (and I would like as well), because it is financially inviable.
But you are going to be part of a minority in your reaction. I prefer TOS by a huge margin over any of the newer shows, and didn't even watch more than a few episodes of the last two. Of the movies, II and IV are the only ones I even like enough to purchase.
But I enjoyed this movie quite a bit. Not much because it was labeled Star Trek, because it was missing something on that front, but because it was a good movie otherwise.
On the Kirk Uhura age thing, I sort of got the impression he as a bit older as he'd been spinning his wheels doing nothing for a few years, while she was a fresh-faced academy enrollee. But maybe I am reading into it what I want to see.
Well, I went as part of a 3 family group yesterday, of which 6 of the adults were TOS fans (I have even purchased the original series season I on blu-ray), and in spite of earlier misgivings about the "reboot", I liked it quite a bit, as did our whole 13 person group.
Not faithful in its representation, probably true, but completely well worth viewing. I didn't have heartburn with the way they managed to justify the new tack at all. Probably my second favorite Trek movie after Khan.
Ditto on the old car. Plus I carpool. Plus taking the train costs me an extra 2 hours a day, as the traffic from my local train station makes my trip from there to home take the same amount of time as the freeway trip from work (40 minutes).
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Nothing beats waking up in the morning, looking out your window and seeing a pair of great tits reflected in the window standing behind you.
T,FTFY
The whole reason that music went DRM free is because the
actual producers/distributors of the music realized just
how much power they had handed Apple.
. . .when they required Apple to apply DRM in the first place (which was the only reason it had ever had it).
Your point about books highlights the issue - convenience. This, coupled with price (actually value) is the whole issue. Music is routinely copied as they charge far too much and make it inconvenient (DRM) compared to the downloadable free stuff. And, as you say, newspapers are not part of this conversation.
Movies are inconvenient to download due to their size, and really, $10-15 for a DVD is (IMO) a pretty reasonable value. So downloading is only an issue with the portion of the population without as much disposable income (teens and twenty somethings), who were never customers in the first place because of that lack of income.
Books, as you say, are not at all convenient in a digital form, as that is not how 99% of the format's consumer want them, and you can't easily "copy" a paper book. As soon as books become a mainstream digital product, though, you will see their "piracy" problem zoom right past musics in ubiquity, because the files sizes will be even smaller, there is no "compression quality" issue (can I read it? Then it is full quality), and the publishing industry will sink like a stone. As much as people trade and share music, with books, it is even more prevalent. Virtually everyone hands books down to a friend or relative, often without the expectation they will be returned (unlike CDs or DVDs), so when it is just forwarding a copy, it will only grow.
Panties
The papyrus medium developed by the Egyptians are still readable today
Only if they were stored under conditions conducive to them not rotting away which was the fate of most papyrus.
And if you read the language they are written in. Also known as recognizing the file format. So even durable papyrus only addressed half the issue.
You could store instructions for accessing the data right in the device! Then you'd be sure there's a durable copy available.
Epifanny. The outside of the butt?
So is that a different species than the other dogs?
While that is true, it ignores some facts. Products designed in the first half of the last century did not benefit from the sort of design and analysis tools that allow corps to engineer something to several nines for an expected time to failure like they can now.
Consequently, product designers often used seat of the pants over-engineering to be sure the product would not fail early and give the company a bad rep. Consequently, there were a lot of appliances and such that were pretty damn robust.
I have a GE hand mixer that my mom got in 1961 that has been used weekly or monthly my entire life and still is completely functional. To this day I associate the smell of ozone with baking because of it.
I don't see anywhere where the GP said or even implied people should not have C sections or that everyone who was the result of one was unfit.
My answer is "do I look stupid?"
Well, yeah, in SOviet Russia.
This convinces me that I will no longer purchase Random House titles in any form. I will have to consider how it affects my use of Amazon.
God I hope you're right. Whatever I may think of MS' software, it is certainly better than SAP enterprise crap. Time charging, purchasing, expense reports, etc. all take approximately 5 times as long as the merely tedious manual and excel process we used to have.
My group yesterday included 3 middle aged moms, one being my wife, who were all quite specific that they DID want to see it.
Oh, and the Enterprise was explicitly stated in TOS to be one of "only twelve like her in the fleet", and most definitely one of Starfleet's flagships. And a heavy cruiser to boot. Don't know where you get the frigate characterization, or the idea that Kirk was not considered one of the most capable commanders.
In this movie it was like two elephants were having sex on top of the camera.
Since this is slashdot, I do feel compelled to point out that elephants are actually somewhat stationary during sex, as the male has a muscle which moves his penis back and forth for him, as the normal humping action used by most mammals is somewhat out of the question with their mass. So unless the camera were strapped to the male elephant's penis (rule 33?), your analogy needs some work.
Transformers 2 comes out June 28.
Err, these things do not happen sanity-based fleets.
Is that an apt description of a fleet which has just been partially wiped out by an overwhelmingly superior adversary, where, in the opinion of the C.O. doing the promoting, the ensign in question embodies all the traits sorely lacking in the typical senior officers who have come out of their academy?
This is actually one of the few items in the movie that somewhat followed canon, that Kirk was a sort of command prodigy who advanced very quickly for his years. Just happened quicker here because of the volatility of the situation.
They were. They just forgot to put them on TV first.
At bare minimum, this Spock is prideful, even BEFORE anything serious alters "his" world. I don't think TOS Spock ever showed that trait.
I don't know. 1) He seemed peeved when the guardian told him he had limited understanding; 2) Kirk certainly used his tweaked pride to get him to build the memory circuit in that same episode; 3) He frequently made remarks to Kirk and McCoy implying pride at not being human.
No, you are fully allowed to be pissed. It's an unfortunate situation for you, because you won't ever get the Star Trek movie you want (and I would like as well), because it is financially inviable.
But you are going to be part of a minority in your reaction. I prefer TOS by a huge margin over any of the newer shows, and didn't even watch more than a few episodes of the last two. Of the movies, II and IV are the only ones I even like enough to purchase.
But I enjoyed this movie quite a bit. Not much because it was labeled Star Trek, because it was missing something on that front, but because it was a good movie otherwise.
On the Kirk Uhura age thing, I sort of got the impression he as a bit older as he'd been spinning his wheels doing nothing for a few years, while she was a fresh-faced academy enrollee. But maybe I am reading into it what I want to see.
Well, I went as part of a 3 family group yesterday, of which 6 of the adults were TOS fans (I have even purchased the original series season I on blu-ray), and in spite of earlier misgivings about the "reboot", I liked it quite a bit, as did our whole 13 person group.
Not faithful in its representation, probably true, but completely well worth viewing. I didn't have heartburn with the way they managed to justify the new tack at all. Probably my second favorite Trek movie after Khan.
Since those extra minutes would come out of the time I spend with my family, I would consider them stolen, not wasted. My job does enough of that.
Ditto on the old car. Plus I carpool. Plus taking the train costs me an extra 2 hours a day, as the traffic from my local train station makes my trip from there to home take the same amount of time as the freeway trip from work (40 minutes).
Horrible solution for me.